Private server on another computer...detectable by Warden etc?

[Poker4Living]

Wife and I use separate computers to play on a private server, which is hosted by a third computer that's always on.

I sometimes play on a real server. Real server wow directory is on C drive, and I have another copy of the wow directory on D drive just for the private server use. I'm very careful not to mix up the two.

Should I worry about an account ban? Does warden see 2 directories and flags that, or extra account directories that shouldn't be there etc?

I thought about trying to forbid the private server wow.exe from accessing the internet also. Suppose I could cut the server from the internet, and just maintain a lan connection. Still a little eerie loading up private wow.exe and reading which realms will go down for maintenance each week.

What do you think?

[Remus]

Should be fine >.> at least I have yet to hear anyone getting banned or a supina over it.

[myran2]

Wife and I use separate computers to play on a private server, which is hosted by a third computer that's always on.

I sometimes play on a real server. Real server wow directory is on C drive, and I have another copy of the wow directory on D drive just for the private server use. I'm very careful not to mix up the two.

Should I worry about an account ban? Does warden see 2 directories and flags that, or extra account directories that shouldn't be there etc?

I thought about trying to forbid the private server wow.exe from accessing the internet also. Suppose I could cut the server from the internet, and just maintain a lan connection. Still a little eerie loading up private wow.exe and reading which realms will go down for maintenance each week.

What do you think?

You're fine.
You honestly don't even need 2 separate wow dirs, let alone 2 seperate wow dirs on different drives

[2dgreengiant]

Warden is ONLY is active when you are on retail. It does NOT matter if you use one wow folder for both,

[choweyiii]

I have been private servers for three years and nothing has happened, or will happen, I don't even change my realms list any more. Blizzard has a shit ton of other things to worry about, they won't randomly scan your computer. You have a paid account, so you're a friend to Blizzard.

[AngelSandy]

All Warden does is looking for Malware in your folders or in your process list.
Sometimes custom patches and the likes. Not if you have a gazzilion folders or anything else ^^

[hulm]

Yea I've been playing for years both retail and private servers on the same drive/folder, even sometimes having a retail and private client up at the same time, never once have I got a warning/ban or anything of the sort.

[Aldun]

Put both in the same folder and you'll be fine. Heck, make a ticket "My pserver crashed, halp!" and you'll be fine.. Not only doesn't Warden (or any other) program detect if you got a pserver on your computer, GMs/blizzard dont care. It's free advertisement for them, the only ones getting in trouble are the ones earning millions (-cough-wowscape-cough) on private servers. I've seen 3 kind of people on Pservers: 1. the kind that plays retail as well and just does Pservers to try out classes and **** around a bit. (Those pay, so why bother banning them?)
2. the kind that hasn't ever player wow and starts on a pserver. (High chances they'll switch to retail, so why bother banning them?)
3. The kiddies that can't pay/failed to steal their mommys CC. (They can't pay, but don't have an account you can ban either...)