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threestain · Dec 10, 2003, 05:42 AM

Hi there, I want to play wc3 against my house mate on our lan but so far no luck. he's got a pc and I've got a tibook - is there anyway for this to work, even through battle.net?

mac freak · Dec 10, 2003, 08:10 AM

It should work over the LAN... I've done many Mac/PC LAN parties where WC3 was played.

redJag · Dec 10, 2003, 09:26 AM

Macs and PCs can easily play Warcraft 3 over LAN. Make sure you both have the same patch and have the LAN set up correctly. Should work just fine.

threestain · Dec 12, 2003, 03:17 AM

We both have 1.12 but I think it could be one of two things:

1: we share the discs (as they work on both) could it be that because we have the same cd key they won't work?

2: we blatantly haven't set up our connection properly (more likely!)

sideus · Dec 12, 2003, 04:51 AM

Originally posted by threestain:
We both have 1.12 but I think it could be one of two things:

1: we share the discs (as they work on both) could it be that because we have the same cd key they won't work?

2: we blatantly haven't set up our connection properly (more likely!)

1. Might be a problem.

redJag · Dec 12, 2003, 08:33 AM

Originally posted by threestain:
We both have 1.12 but I think it could be one of two things:

1: we share the discs (as they work on both) could it be that because we have the same cd key they won't work?

2: we blatantly haven't set up our connection properly (more likely!)

1. No, unless they changed something recently you can use the same CD Key on LANs. Blizzard doesn't want to put their CD Key Authentication stuff on a client-side executable!

2. The only thing that matters is your IP must match (well, let's not get too technical on this) for the first 3 sets of numbers. The common way to do it is 192.168.2.X where X is a unique # for each computer. Then set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 and the router/gateway to 192.168.2.1.

Windows Networking:
Start -> Control Panels -> Networking -> Local Area Connection -> Properties -> TCP/IP
Mac Networking:
System Preferences -> Networking -> Ethernet (wow.)

if you have any other questions lemme know. also, this will definitely mess up your internet connection so it'd be best to create a seperate location (assuming the game machines are on the net). if you give more details about your net connection I can help you set it up so you can be on the net and LAN at the same time.