Having issues with making the game an IP-connection game

[Vaedan-Joris]

Hello everyone,

I managed to get my server to run locally on a NAS in a docker container and i can connect to it. I just can't figure out how to make it accessible from the outside for my friends since when i set the game session to IP and press apply, the game crashes with an unreal engine error. I don't see anything on the README to change this to IP either. Am i doing something wrong?

My Docker-compose:

My port forwarding on my router:

Trying to adjust the server session setting in-game:

The tag says it's an epic games profile but i'm playing through Steam and just made the link to Epic because otherwise i get another message when trying to set this setting to IP:

Error after pressing Apply:

If anyone could tell me what these settings should be set to and what i might be doing wrong that would be great.

I assume that to make this work i will have to do the following:

• Set the session to IP
• Somehow set my IP address to the WAN IP of my router
• Ask friends to direct connect to IP and fill in WAN IP:7777 or something along those lines
• My friends can log in without me playing as long as the server is running

[wolveix]

Hey @Vaedan-Joris, I've never seen the session type menu before, and you shouldn't need to mess around with anything in there. If you've port forwarded correctly, your friends will be able to use your external IP. Regarding the game crash, you should contact Coffee Stain Studios about that, but I suspect it's because you're trying to set session settings for a dedicated server, which are two different things (a session is for non-servers).

[Vaedan-Joris]

Thanks for the quick reply. It does make sense if you explain it like that. My apologies, i know a bit about networking etc. but i'm by no means an expert.

[wolveix]

No worries at all! It's not particularly obvious :)

[Vaedan-Joris]

Turns out i didn't port forward my ISP's modem, only my own router and i had to set a fixed IP to the network coming from my modem. Stupid to miss this but i'll leave it here for other people or myself in the future.