Well, I downloaded Smartfox pro and SFS Islands demo project. I’ve built everything, ran the Smartfox pro server and everything seems to be connecting well to 127.0.0.1 with port 9339.
But when I try to get my friends to connect to the game by entering my IP with port 9339 in the client it doesn’t work… It just doesn’t connect them.
Where is the problem or am I doing something wrong?
Why does it only connect to 127.0.0.1 but not MY Ip?
Thank you.
Maybe its a problem of your router/firewall :S
Hmm… I’m not sure.
I just read the MMO tutorial on Unity3d wiki about setting up Smartfox, it says this:
I don’t understand this part… what API example? It doesn’t explain anything at all 
And may that be a problem why it doesn’t work for me, because I haven’t done that?
Some time back I used to host Private servers for certain MMORPG’s and people could connect to them connecting to my IP without any trouble :S
But that is not related to unity or smartfox at all…
I dont think its a problem of the API example, because as it says, its only an example…
have you tried to ping your server from outside?, does it pings?
What do you mean? Sorry I’m not too good on networking stuff ;D I know what ping is, just don’t understand what you’re asking me.
dont worry, 
I’m not that good either
just try on your command line to ping your machine on your IP, not the 127.0.0.1 because that is the localhost, what I’m talking about is the 87.foo.foo.foo (dont remember the address) and check if the ping goes trough or says timeout 
Ok I did a ping test through cmd if that’s what you meant
As far as I see there is no timeout, so it means that the ping is going through? ;/
Where could the stupid problem be… Spent like whole day today trying to figure this out and didn’t do anything usefull on project
Check that your SFS server actually listens on your IP. Look in the Server/config.xml and make sure it says:
*
9339
Additionally - just because you can ping your machine doesnt mean that someone from the outside can see it. Looooots of stuff can be happening.
Best thing is to tell your friend to open a command shell and have him type
telnet YOURIP 9339
If it says anything about connection refused or similar, then your SFS server is not reachable from an outside network. Most likely due to firewalls. E.g. try to turn off your Windows firewall and make sure your router actually has the port open.
/Thomas