03-14-2012, 08:33 AM
(03-13-2012, 06:00 PM)xoft Wrote: If you are on windows, go into the commandline (Win+R, "cmd", enter) and run this command: "netstat -na" (without the quotes). It will show you all TCP and UDP ports used on your computer. MCServer uses TCP port 25565 by default, so if it is already taken, it can't use that port.
You can specify a different port in the settings.ini, then MCS will happily use whatever number port you give it, as long as it's free. You'll need to add that port number to the server name when connecting to it with a client, though (so instead of connecting to "myserver", you'll be connecting to "myserver:25564")
Ok thanks for the info. I find it still kind of weird that the only MC server on my network can't go by the default port but maybe that's just me. I just checked my Windows 7 PC (on which I had some other MC servers and port 25565 is not in the netstat -na list.. I just checked the NAT mapping table of my Arcadyan Modemrouter combi and can say for sure that 25565 is not in there on neither of my IP's. So why it says the address is in use remains a riddle, but I'll try another port. Again many thanks for the hints & tips
Ranko