Cannot connect to the server

[Teppic Lutze]

Whenever I open the client I can't connect to the server. I don't have a firewall blocking port 7777, I can ping the server, and the server is up, so I'm completely clueless.

[neko kyouran]

what's the version number on the client?

[Teppic Lutze]

PlaneShift Steel Blue (0.4.00)

[neko kyouran]

run the updater.  we're on .4.01 now

[Parallo]

Neko's speed and effiency is almost chilling. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we may have a robot in our midst.

[Wudinna]

I just downloaded the game and am eager to give to a try but the server is down apparently... Does anyone know how long this will take?

[Wudinna]

Problem solved i see. Cya!

[NULL]

EDIT: Right after posting this, I tried again, and it is working. I guess the server status on the webpage isn't really real time?
Anyway, any other newbies reading this. Just give it some time, and try again.

I just now, downloaded the game. V0.4.01
When I run the client, it says Servers -> Fragnetics  Failed.
I searched the forums and found answers to everything, so far.
I went to my router and setup port 7777 to forward to my machine 192.168.1.103 (With tcp/UDP set to BOTH)
ifconfig shows.

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:e6:df:66:d4 
          inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:e6ff:fedf:66d4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1446542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:836095 errors:152 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2115948856 (1.9 GB)  TX bytes:85066405 (81.1 MB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0xa000
grc.com's "ShieldsUP" service shows port 7777 as 'closed' not 'stealthed' So that means the port is accessible from the outside world.

However, the message in the game persists. I then found this thread about running the updater. So I did.
I got the err about the xml file "This updaterinfo.xml file is marked as inactive and will not work. Please get another one."
So I found a thread that talked about that and followed those instructions, changing the first line to "true".

I was then able to run the updater, and it worked. However the "Server Faild" message in the game is still there.

On the "New accounts" page of this website, it says.
Server Status: ONLINE       Players: 111

So the server isn't down. I don't know what else to do now. I can not find anything else in the forums. So this is why I'm adding to the mess of newbie questions. My apologizes if this is not technically the correct thread to post this. I just didn't want to add yet-another thread with the same old questions.

My system:
Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64
Latest Nvidia drivers. 2 7300Gt's running in SLi mode "SFR"
Cable internet connection "8mbps down"
Gnome - with CompizFusion from git
No special lan configurations, its about as simple as it gets. One router connects all of the computers.