Two Clients can't connect at the same time.

[PGerringer]

Using the latest download of client and server. My friend set up the server at his house. His son (same house) and he can both connect. I can connect (different house) just fine. My son (different house - what can I say, divorce sucks) can connect just fine but not when I'm logged in. Its almost like the server will only allow 3 connections at once or my son and my IDs are mutually exclusive. When I'm not signed in, he can connect just fine. If hes signed on I can't connect. The error is that standard Cannot connect error you get when the server is unreachable. Any ideas? We've tried deleting my son's ID and recreating it but no joy. I'll try to get a copy of the error message next time one of us try to login but its the same others have gotten. Any help you can give would be appreciated.

[Shadowgopher]

I'm the friend PGerringer mentioned above. I'm running the TS server on my PC. I run through a NetGear router and I have port 8767 forwarded. PGerringer can connect fine through my firewall to the server. If he is not logged on, his son can connect fine. It's only when they both try that the problems occur. I have all users set up as registered users and have verified that they are connecting from totally different IP addresses. My server is using mostly the default configuration and should be allowing 16 simultaneous client connections.

If it makes any difference, my ID is logged in as SA and my son and PGerringer are designated as CA. PGerringer's son has no special permissions other than being a registered user.

Can anyone provide any insight as to why those two clients can't seem to connect at the same time while each of them can connect fine without the other?

[(ETS) david]

Are you trying to log in via lan or wan?

[PGerringer]

Shadow and son are lan, my son and I are on the wan.

[(ETS) david]

This is very strange, lan works well because the router should by default not be blocking anything unless told to do so, as for the wan side of it well if one person can connect and the other can not and vise versa then I can only think that it is something to do with the nat of the router, try seeing if there is an update for it, and also make sure that they can ping the server machine when once is rejected (you will need to ensure that you have this turned on as some routers have it off by dedault)