On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:40:24AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > 1) Is it possible to have a program access a bronco server's players > database file via a remote socket connection? If so what port that > would be? Yes. Ports 2592 and 2593. 2590 is possibly available if enabled on a server, see docs/sample_ports. The access is: (a) verification that an entry exists, (b) verifying that a password matches the character name, and (c) creating a new entry. The protocol is Netrek, and uses packet types CP_LOGIN and SP_LOGIN. Other access could certainly be built trivially. > 2) If the server moved and I needed to restore the player db file from > a backup how would I apply it to the newly built server? cp(1) usually. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/