Some Issues..
I've gotten almost everything to work, server starts up okay... client starts up okay, login says it was sucessful, but when I click on the created character slot called "Spodi", the client just freezes. I have to force close it after that.
When I first got this error I went into the control panel and tryed to make a firewall exception, but then I would get like a red X on the screen of the client when I tried to log in.... Then I tried it with the server and had to relog because it made the server freeze. Now I'm sorta back to square one. Again the client will just freeze after I've logged in and try to click the character slot(I can make new ones fine), but at least the server works fine again. 
I turned off McAfee Firewall, but it didn't make a difference, also tried running with mysql and the database open, incase those are needed or something...
Mabye it's having trouble loading the maps or something? The last line the server gets to is Set User. Doesn't load anything beyond that and the server keeps running just fine, doesn't respond or even seem to see a request from the client if there is one.
After I force close the server just disconnects the client.
It definitelly could connect to the server, since it gave me the account logged in successfully message.
This is a dell windows 7 laptop that I'm running it on.
Thanks a ton. Turning the UAC off seemed to fix it, I should have realized NetGore wouldn't make it prompt a UAC message if it was being blocked. Again thanks a ton for the help.
Btw I love the dragable interface, can't wait to get working w/ the engine.
If the connection is being made, the firewall shouldn't be a problem. MySQL does need to be running, but the server will tell you if it failed to connect. This does not mean you need a window for MySQL open, just the service running. But if the server loads, then MySQL is working, since the server can't load without it.
Are you using UAC? If so, try disabling it and either using a user account that does not have limited permissions, or run the server and client processes as administrator.
If you want, I can check it out personally. See [[using VNC for remote assistance]] for details.