Greetings!

After a few hours of futile searching and many attempts at a solution I've run out of ideas. I'm trying to either connect to a friend or have my friend connect to me in order to play BG2 via TCP/IP. No matter who is hosting we receive the "Can't Connect" error message after waiting 30 seconds or so. Here's a list of things I've tried:

Forwarding ports! Forwarded 2300-6073 on both the host and the host-ee? Also tried both machines running under a DMZ. "Can't Connect" message still appears.

Running in windowed mode. Running in XP compatibility mode. Disabling Windows Firewall (both machines).

Both machines are behind routers, both machines are running Windows 7 64-bit.

The most killer part of all this is that I have successfully gotten this game to work in multiplayer before, after similar headaches. That was a few years ago though and happened while running Windows XP. Anyone have any other ideas?

EDIT: Searching around a little more I saw the suggestion to use Game Ranger to try and get things to work. I finally broke down and tried it and to my surprise, it actually worked. So give that a shot if you can't figure anything else out.