you have to hav the lan up and running, before you start the game. you could run the server on one machine and then run the game on it and the second machine would just run the game and connect to yer server. your lan should provide ip addrresses and stuff.. 2 machines on he same LAN, one runs the server AND the game, one just runs the game .. hope this helps some. I play on my own server sometimes to test stuff.
