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This is for friends who are sitting beside on you your local wifi. Have your friends fireup the minecraft client and ‘Directly Connect’ replacing the numbers below with your own as follows: Wifi Go back to Port Map and write down these numbers depending on whether you are connecting via local wifi or internet:įor your friends who are on your wifi, gave them the same information we used to Part 2 when connecting locally.

#HOW TO PORTFORWARD A MINECRAFT SERVER MAC#

To setup port forwarding on your mac server, hit the ‘+’ sign in Port Map, and then enter the following data:Īfter that your Port Map configuration should look something like this:įor others to connect to your server you need to poke holes in, or turn off, your firewall.Ĭlick the ‘Firewall’ tab, then hit the lock at the bottom, enter you account password, turn off, and then save changes. It maps the external traffic internally, and vice-versa. That means if any network traffic comes in on this external ports, they will be forward to your internal server. But before we do we need to do what’s called port forwarding on your server (computer). Which they can then use to connect to us. We are going to give them this information What we want to do is give your friends the external IP address (68.x.x.x) along with the port number they can connect to (25565 by default for minecraft). What you are seeing here is how your computer looks within your network (that’s the 10.0.1.4 internal LAN IP address) and then how it looks external to the outside world (in this case the numbers with the 68.x.x.x. When you do you will see something as follows (ignore the minecraft line entry for now). Port forwarding enables your kids friends to directly connect to your computer by forwarding the data on through your wifi router (which masks it) to your computer. If others are going to connect to your server, they are going to need an address on where to connect to.

#HOW TO PORTFORWARD A MINECRAFT SERVER SOFTWARE#

There are three things we need to do before the world can connect to our server.īefore following these instructions please note that running server software on your computer without a clear understanding of what you are doing may seriously harm your system and lead to vulnerabilities. With our server setup ( Part 1), and proof that we can connect to it locally ( Part 2), we are now ready to share our server with the rest of the world (Part 3). Part 3: Setup Internet Client Part 3: Setup Internet Client

#HOW TO PORTFORWARD A MINECRAFT SERVER HOW TO#

This is the third part of a three part series on how to setup a multiplayer server on a Mac.