[Question] Why don't my networked sessions actually exist?

[Spiris]

Hello, I have already posted this up on answerhubbut figured I may as well open it up to the rest of the community as well for sanity’s sake.

I am hosting a dedicated server on a separate machine on my LAN, I have multiple players connected and communicating through replication using the ‘open <IP>’ in order to connect clients. However!

Whenever I try to use online functionality that calls SessionInterface->GetNumSessions() from my clients, It winds up returning 0. Nothing crashes, but anything past that check cannot run.

Why is this? How can I change this? I am using a combination of blueprints and c++ so either suggestions are welcomed.

[This has been answered now, you can see the answer on the answerhub page.]

[qdelpeche]

This has been resolved on the AnswerHub post and I am merely including the solution here for completeness sake … just in case someone else is searching the forums.

As it turns out, connecting to my server via 'open ’ is not the proper way to join a session, and results in connected clients ignoring the session that does in fact exist on the server. In order to solve this I had to set up a session in c++ (I couldn’t find the one hosted through Blueprints) and used the find and join session blueprint nodes to connect to my server. The session is now accessable along with all of the functions I need. Huzzah!