Monday, January 16, 2012

Help! My minecraft LAN wont work!

Question

Ok, I have no trouble setting up my server, or connecting to said server with my personal machine, but when my friend attempts to join we get this msg:

Internal client error: java.net.UnknownHostException: session.minecraft.net

A quick google search seems to suggest that this is because his version is different than mine, except he's running MY FILES. (i copied my .minecraft folder and transferred them to his labtop, then we had him login once using his credentials to finalize the transfer)

Answer

The problem is that either the server cannot connect to Minecraft.net or that the person getting that error doesn't have a legitimate Minecraft account and so the server is refusing access.

The way to solve this is either to get all players a premium Minecraft account, or to change online-mode to false to stop it from checking the validity of the other account.

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