How do I set up a minecraft LAN server? Is it possible? What IP do I use to connect to one?
You make a server as normal, and connect using the local IP address (most likely in the 192.168.1.x range)
If you don't want to make it available on the internet, just don't forward the ports/allow it through the firewall.
Edit: Use "ipconfig /all" in the command prompt of the host to find the IP address.
Enter "localhost" on the hosting machine if it's going to play too.
I've been trying to do this, but whenever I try to join from the host computer or from another computer on the network, it takes too long to log in.
Uhm, often you need to allow the program to work through your "internal" firewall.
(Meaning that some firewalls allow you to let some programs work through them on the internal (or local) network.)
And the server needs to be able to access the internet (since it validates names against minecraft.net, if it can't then it times out and then the clients time out while connecting)
Or you can disable that validation if it's a purely internal server (online-mode=false in the config file)
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