Private LAN Hub

[notorioussl2k]

I will soon be throwing a LAN party, and I have decided that I would like to use DC++ as the means of transfering files. Whille I do run Linux primarily at home, I would like to use DC++ on my Windows 2003 Server. I was wondering if someone could provided me with some help getting it so that only people on my network will be able to connect the the hub? There will be an active internet connection, so I need to make sure that for the LAN party DC++ only broadcasts within the people that are there and that no one else can get access for the duration.. without having the sever myself from the net.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[rakie]

I'm not too good at this either. But to give you an answer quick. Try make it a registered user only hub and make users for everyone who's gonna use it. And you should be able to connect to the hub with the lan ip to bypass going through internet.
Hope it helps

[notorioussl2k]

Hmmm.. I might try that... but I recently went to a lan party at someone elses house and he was running DC++ for file sharing and I recall having to sign in. Now... we didn't have a internet connection at his house because he choose to disconnect it from the LAN....

it seemed to me that he just had the client running on the server and his router was assigning IP addressed and then we just connected... but I cant seem to replicate that senario.... if anyone else knows anything info will be apprecaited

[BSOD2600]

Simple. Don't forward the DC server port on the router and no one from the outside will be able to connect. Alternatively, you can get a IP blocking script and only allow your LAN IP range.