Minecraft Server (Offline mode) DCs the 2nd person connecting on LAN

[RedString]

So my girlfriend and I are trying to play on a server I hosted. I downloaded the server .exe from the Minecraft website, and I've changed it to Offline Mode in the server.properties file since neither of us have a Minecraft account.

One of us can join it at a time, but when we try to join together - the one already logged on will be kicked off and greeted with a message saying "Disconnected by server You have logged into another location".

I'm guessing it's connecting both of us by our shared public IP address instead of our private 192.168.1.2 / 1.4 so my server client is seeing 74.197.132.187 try to connect twice. So what do I do? I have no clue.

 

[novasatori]

Unless I misunderstand you, maybe you should make accounts and buy the game?

 

[RedString]

Well it's free to play offline, and the 1.6 patch added Offline Mode on servers your hosting yourself so...

Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[boran]

Redstring, just to clear up any confusion. as far as I know minecraft is not free to play offline.

on a technical note, you might want to check your routing tables and make sure you connect by IP

 

[coloumb]

You have to connect to the online server at least once in order to enable off line mode - hence, you need to BUY it.

 

[LittleBigGuy]

You can try to download Custom Nickname Loader and change your name. I think that will work.