Can't login to server

[Scott]

I have never played Spring before.

It tells me "disconnected from server: Official server" down at the bottom of the window when I try to connect from the server menu item.

It tells me bad username/password when I try it from the chat tab.

I tried this after using the lobby server connect\register box to create an account. When that didn't work I came to this forum and registered with the same username and password, but it still doesn't work in the game.

Can anybody help me?

My operating system is openSUSE 11.0 running Kde 3.5.10.

[bartvbl]

try to register with a different username and password (one you haven't used before).
Also, the account you use for the forum does not work on the lobby server. They are two different accounts.

[hoijui]

if you used SpringLobby, after clicking on Register it opens a new window.. for me, it opens below the current one, so i first did not see it... maybe that happened to you too?

[Scott]

If it did open a new window after registering, what was i supposed to do with it, and what would I do now since it has already been done and all it does if I try again is tell me that there is already and account with that username and password?

[Scott]

O.K. I don't know. I tried again with another username and password and the results are the same. It only told me that I was already registered once whichever username password combination I used though. The rest of the time the box just disappeared and nothing else happened. I took a look around the desktop and there was never another one hiding anyplace.

Also it seems that on the singleplayer tab it does not see games or maps on my system either in /usr/share/games/spring/mods and /usr/share/games/spring/maps where it put the folders or in my /home/scott/.spring/mods and /home/scott/.spring/maps folder where it also placed folders after I hit the auto configure button in the lobby preferences. I placed 1944 and one map in each of those locations. Did I do that correctly?

I'm wondering if maybe there is something deeper wrong.

Is there another way to register than using the Spring lobby?

[Neddie]

When you register an account, you select name and password. The account is then created. You then log in with the account using the same name and password. This should pop up a one-time agreement which you must consent to. Then it should pause a few moments while it logs in.

[Scott]

You then log in with the account using the same name and password. This should pop up a one-time agreement which you must consent to. Then it should pause a few moments while it logs in.

O.K. It doesn't do that. It just tells me bad username\password. Any idea why?

[Neddie]

Are you putting in the password and username correctly? Did you misspell either when registering the account?

[Scott]

I've tried to do it a number of times and with more than one combination watching what I was doing as carefully as I could to make sure I was doing it right.

[darloth]

I'm having the exact same problem, having lost my springlobby username/password for the umpteenth time.

Here's how I reproduce the bug, I'll list system specs below that:

1. I load spring lobby version 0.61 msw (that's what it says at the bottom anyway - it wouldn't autodownload, so I copied it on top of the old version manually)
2. I go to the chat tab, which brings up a login dialog
3. I select the Register tab from the login dialog, and enter some details I've already used once
4. I press OK.
5. The login/register dialog goes away.
6. Nothing else happens.
7. If you change to another tab, the login dialog comes back, and clicking any option will hang the client.

If you put in completely new details, it will work, but it still hangs (for me) if you try and make an account with a pre-existing username, and, more worryingly, there's no hint that it registers the new one properly. The only difference is at step 7 (already confusing as the dialog has vanished then reappeared) where it works if you try and log in instead of hanging the client.

This computer is running Vista 32 bit home edition, has 4gb of ram and a core2duo processor, along with DX9 and 10, and a Radeon 4870, not that I expect that to make any difference to whether the lobby logs in or not, but there we go :)