I want to be able to connect to my server in online mode

[nerdherdtnh]

Back again with another problem. I call upon the higher power of… @Siliconheart!

I read what you said in my last thread,

Do Not Try: Connecting to the Internet wirelessly

To be able to connect from elsewhere rather than your local network, you need to: Have dedicated external IP address (e.g. not shared with other DSL users) - that can cost extra $ from Internet provider. Have some (or all) ports open to external IP from outside (you’ll get it if you get (1) in most cases) Set up port forwarding on your router to DNAT some ports to your linux box. If you are OK with it, then: Try to set online-mode= in server.properties to false to bypass authentication. And…

and connecting in “offline mode” works, as far as I can tell. Upon testing it, an external connection when the server is in offline mode seems to not be able to reach the server. There is no record of the external connection in the terminal console, but I do get a console message that says “the authentication servers are down”, when the real case is that my server computer can’t reach outside of the local network.

I might just end up giving up like last time, but I’d really like to be able to see my skin. That’s just a really fun thing for me. Alex is a little plain for my tastes.

Any help is appreciated. See you soon.
-the Nerd Herd

EDIT: I’m pretty sure I forgot to write that a local connection to the server works just fine, in offline mode. >_>

[nerdherdtnh]

I sense I may have created a redundant thread, but don’t delete this just yet.

Authentication error for vanilla 1.8

I just setup MineOS using the pre-packaged Turnkey bundle on a bare metal system and decided to test it with a new vanilla 1.8 world. It worked at first, but after running for a few hours the system disconnected and kick me off the server. Any attempt to reconnect give the message: “Authentication servers are down, try again later.” From what I can tell this means that the server can’t verify my user ID with Mojang’s servers for some reason. I checked and there are no disruptions on Mojang’s se…

[nerdherdtnh]

Authentication error for vanilla 1.8

I remember having trouble with this on mineOS. The problem was that the serverclock was wrong and that somehow affected the authentification. I think the server says to the client “I don’t belive you! That authfication token is to old.” The resulution was to set the clock to current time.

Authentication error for vanilla 1.8

Off to fix my server clock.

[ElPres]

Also try in the console
ping www.google.com -c4
Just to make sure you can access the net.

[nerdherdtnh]

Can I do that from the webmin console, @ElPres? Is there one? I don’t feel like getting up again. XD

[ElPres]

Just ssh in to your box. If you’re using windows download putty

[Siliconheart]

I suppose on Mac you can just type ssh 192.168.1.xxx in Terminal. If you are not familiar with command-line on Mac - yes, there is an option in WebMin - go to Tools ->Command Shell. Also you can connect to ‘Shell in a box’ via https://192.168.1.xxx:12320/ which is like Web-version of putty.