Roumata

Hello, We are a community of french players and we are used to play on strategic video games. I just tried theatre of war 2 and i'm very interested on this game. Me and one of my friends, we bought it via steam to test it on a multiplayer session, but we can't create an online server. First we can't open the option.exe, both of us and on different PC, both using windows 7. However we tried to use the mp.ini file of the "users" folders by editing it, but we still can't create an internet server whatever we do with the mp.ini file. For both of us, when we want to create one, we have a message which pop telling us we need an external IP address. However we have on external IP address. We use the web page http://www.myipaddress.com/show-my-ip-address/ to get it. Our router are well configured, but we still get everytime the message that we need an external IP address ???? neither me, nor my friend can create a server via internet. Do you have any suggestion to help us solve our problem and help us create an internet server ? By the way we have no problem to create servers for some other games. thanks for your help and suggestions. Roum