Cannot join friend's server with hamachi

[Nom Nom]

I joined my friend's hamachi server, however, I can't find his server in LAN. What can i do?

[Gran]

Originally posted by Mixer.com/TehEmoGurl:

Originally posted by DJKelvin:

I joined my friend's hamachi server, however, I can't find his server in LAN. What can i do?

Make sure he has set it up correctly.

If you are positive it is setup correctly then use steams built in server browser and add it manually as "localhost:27015" and see if it gets a response from the server.

You can also try and ping it via a command terminal.

My question however... Why on earth would you want to use hamachi to connect to an Ark server? If you friend doesn't know how to forward ports he shouldn't be running an Ark server... or any server for that matter.

him adding localhost:27015, if his friend is running the server should serve what purpose exactly?

And ever thought about someone hosting a server behind a router he has no control over?

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by DJKelvin:

What can i do?

Tell your friend its not working, and tell him to fix it, considering your connecting to his network via VPN the problem is likely to be on his end :)

Unless your talking about the fish used in sushi, although that would be wierd to connect with a fish ...

[zerassar]

Replace "localhost" with the actual server IP address

[zerassar]

Oh right... That's weird. I thought it just made an ad-hoc mesh network but the addressing was still done normally though the virtual adapters. Though it has been like donkeys years since I used hamachi.

[Gran]

afair localhost will always point to ::1 / 127.0.0.1 which in fact can't be another machine but is the loopback address of his own computer. So checking localhost for a server on another machine is futile.

And as far as Hamachi goes it seems that it is just a simplifying VPN software so basically he had to use Hamatchi.IP.other.Guy:27015 to find the server the way you described.
But what do i know about Hamachi.

[zerassar]

Now my comment is totally out of place due to the deletions :-P

[Gran]

Originally posted by zerassar:

Now my comment is totally out of place due to the deletions :-P

tell me about it

[Nom Nom]

Ermmm... it should be my computer's problem instead of my friend's problem. Since some of my friends can login to his server, however, only me, can't login to his server. I knew that ARK prefers using IPv4, but I don't know how to fix.

[zerassar]

Do you use webroot anti virus? Uninstall it.

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by DJKelvin:

Ermmm... it should be my computer's problem instead of my friend's problem. Since some of my friends can login to his server, however, only me, can't login to his server.

Well you know, as long as you don't share any technical details that might help, all we can do is play a guessing game.

[Nom Nom]

Ermmm... What technical details you need? Hardware?
Since I seldom use community,I don't know that I need to share technical details...

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by DJKelvin:

Ermmm... What technical details you need? Hardware?
Since I seldom use community,I don't know that I need to share technical details...

Well for example you mention IPv4 specificlly, does this mean you are getting a ipv6 adress from the hamachi VPN ?

What LAN IP is the server on ?

What adress are you using to connect to the server, when you are connected to the hamachi VPN ?

What IP settings do you have once connected to the hamachi VPN ?

Can you ping the server when connected to the hamachi VPN ?

And there are more questions, but they kind of depend on the awnsers to the above once.

Regardless of how much you use communities, sharing technical details with issues/problems/errors is normal even outside of gaming communities like steam.
You dont tell your car mechanic you car isnt working, how do i fix it ... atleast not without being asked another 20 questions about what exacly isnt working :P