I recently bought a second copy of Minecraft for my fiance and I to play together, but since about 1pm this afternoon I have been trying to get his LAN game to show up on my server list/ vice versa to no avail. I tried setting up an online server both through Himachi and the official Minecraft server jar files, both failed. Through Himachi, with both windows firewalls shut off, his computer can ping mine, and mine his, but not locally. I've tried going through every tiny setting I can find for inbound/outbound allowances. After tweaking, instead of the connection timing out, it just tells me the connection was denied/not allowed.
Through the command prompt/powershell, with both firewalls on, he can ping my Windows 7 system, but the connection times out when I try to ping him. I even tried running the game in compatibility mode for windows 7 under admin(which is stupid because they're both running the same Java version of the game so eh?)
And so after almost throwing his new laptop out the Window, I have come here for your mindful assistance.
TLDR; Windows 10 is rude and won't talk to Windows 7.
Through the command prompt/powershell, with both firewalls on, he can ping my Windows 7 system, but the connection times out when I try to ping him. I even tried running the game in compatibility mode for windows 7 under admin(which is stupid because they're both running the same Java version of the game so eh?)
And so after almost throwing his new laptop out the Window, I have come here for your mindful assistance.
TLDR; Windows 10 is rude and won't talk to Windows 7.