Silkroad Online Forums

what if it was 4 login servers since the very first time?
oh, btw, I've found one pic of one of the login servers, Tarky was there checking the queue system and for bot loggin.

You can see the ban hammer to Tarky's left.

HAHAHAHAH

does this affect vista? Cause I am unable to find etc. I got lost at drivers.

Well Im using Vista Home premium and I found it easily, it should be there, just try to find it

thanks I don't know why it was hidden initially, but my bad. Do I open it with notepad?

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

this was shown when i pulled it up on notepad, I'm sorry I'm asking so many questions but I'm kinda clueless when it comes to stuff like these, I've read the instructions clearly and I don't want to risk messing with the system32 file..

i just spent 6 hours trying to connect while on .30 and still didnt get in. is this outdated?

Yes, most of goldbots moved to .30, try .26

Like that, just add those lines to connect to .26
and to save it, remeber to run notepad as administrator.

I tried running as administrator, it was successful, however I was unable to save it.

it says make sure the path and file name are correct. =/

will do good sir

That's true, I get in with .26 pretty much right away lol.

funny, for me, i got in on 30 on my desktop, but 26 still going on my labtop. Started both at same time to test too.

none have seemed to work for me =\

Yea. I got my guildmates to each specifically log on different servers, me 26 and 30, them 27,28,29. We timed it over vent to all start the login around the same time. So far it's 6 hours and still no one got on. I think someone is spamming the JM login servers or they themselves are crowding them on purpose. I never seen it be so hard to log on before. I'm on my gf's labtop now playing l4d instead...

well i left sro on overnight and i was in this morning, idk how long it took tho.

so .26 is now the good one?

try .69

I sometimes try the /etc/hosts trick, but sometimes I forget. Either way, I often set it to log in, go to work, come home, and I'm on the character select screen with the 'disconnected from server' message.

I tried running as administrator after following the guide, however I was unable to save it.

it says make sure the path and file name are correct.. can you tell me how to fix my problem?

is there anyone that can help me? because i keep restarting my sro but i keep getting 28 29 or 30, never 26.

just be sure you have

in your hosts file, i dont know why it wouldnt work

oh no that's not a problem, i'm just saying i can't save the file.. and i even ran it as an administrator

Umm...run the Notepad as administrator, then open it on Notepad and save it, should work.

Check if the file was 'read-only'

copypaste your hostsfile to your desktop, edit your version on the desktop... save... copypaste it back

I tried running as administrator and also making sure that the check box is unchecked for read-only. however this couldn't solve my problem. In the end, what i did was

right click on hosts.
go to properties
go to security
make sure all my users like system, administrator and Users (my pc name) are allowed to write and modify etc etc.

Will this affect my system? Since I am the only one that has access to this computer, but I'm talking about viruses etc..




On a sidenote, how do we know if .26 is crowded with bots, or if it's crashed etc..

thanks for being patient with me guys =)

It won't harm your pc.
You don't know... My experience with .26 is that it took longer as .30 (Hercules)

same here... .30 is better

I'd say it won't harm your PC... unless something happens... You wouldn't want just anyone having write access to your hosts file. Then I could write a script that will update your hosts file to redirect all of your banking traffic to my website, if I know what bank you use, without having to exploit some bug first to gain administrator rights.