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Budfrog · December 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Having a problem with ded........</div> Can anyone work out why my dedicated server has spat its dummy out?
Tfc runs fine!
Can anyone help me please.

Cheers

Bud <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>

ps- Hopefully there is a jpeg with this post of my server desktop?

HtNickoli · December 2002

It would be nice if you took a ss of the server actually starting. Or turn logging on and paste that. But off hand with what little info you provided. I'd say you have a path error. The servers trying to load custom.hpk, with a mixture of windows and linux format file formats. IE / and \. Winblows uses \, as a seperator.

But I would gues that it never loaded the valve pak files or ns pak files. Nor does it even show that the map was loaded properly. So although servers running, its not actually running NS. But lacking a better paste of the server info your not going to get any better answer.

So turn logging on, look at the log, and if you can't see any errors, try use "-debug" in the start line. Then look at log file. Or paste it here.

HtNickoli · December 2002

Just for your refferance to see what I'm talking about. I started a ns server on my xp machine, with the following start line.

D:\SIERRA\Half-Life\hlds.exe -game ns +map ns_bast

And this is what my ded ns server starts like on windows. And why I doubt you loaded any pak files. or the map. keep in mind this isn't the ded server package, but the actual game install. So some things like version etc will be different.

But the main differances to note are;
-all dir path seperators in windows are \ not /.
-It loaded the valve pak0.pak language file.

You are exec, hlds.exe from within the proper dir aren't you? And you did install the windows ns server version I assume? Because the only reason I can think of that it would try to use the linux path seperator is if its reading a linux dir path?<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>

But I only run linux for dedicated game servers. So I really can't be much help. ANd wouldent shock me tobe totally off base here.

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Budfrog · December 2002

Sorry for not being more specific with my problem, noobs eh!
Well the server is part of a home lan setup, but the internet connection does not plug into the server box.
The adsl line is run into my brothers pc and, with connection sharing on, then through a switch to the server.
The server box is running win2k and for some reason team fortress works fine over the net?
Below is diagram of the setup:

Budfrog · December 2002

Me again!
Just noticed in the 1.03 brief ,in the news section, that the win32 and linux updates are in the same file.
This could be my problem as i just extracted the files to the Ns dedicted server folder. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>
Also which files are the linux files and how do start server the server logging? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'>

[WHO]Them · December 2002

*.dll is a windows specific file (Dynamically Loaded Library (or something close to that))
*.so is a linux specific file (Shared Object)

besides that I'm pretty sure all the other files are interchangable

Budfrog · December 2002

Come on lads!
One of you must know something <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='mad.gif'>

Mellonpopr · December 2002

are you suggesting that nobody can stay connected or just this one guy in the screenshot ?

cracker_jackmac · December 2002

Does the server operate as a router?

Do you have an external router? if so, what ports are you forwarding?

I also am not noticing that i don't see any paks opening up and loading. i get about 2 screen fulls of it.

Xanedon · December 2002

I start mine on a winxp box with these switches

-game ns -port 27015 -noipx +log on +maxplayers 20 +map ns_bast

also i have a similar setup and had to set router forwarding for port 27015 to the correct ip address inside of my firewall. Check the router config if you can to make sure that it is recieveing incoming messages correctly.

cracker_jackmac · December 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Budfrog @ Dec 11 2002, 08:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Sorry for not being more specific with my problem, noobs eh!
Well the server is part of a home lan setup, but the internet connection does not plug into the server box.
The adsl line is run into my brothers pc and, with connection sharing on, then through a switch to the server.
The server box is running win2k and for some reason team fortress works fine over the net?
Below is diagram of the setup:</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
sounds to me like your port forwarding isn't setup....what is your configuration?

Mellonpopr · December 2002

Yikes ! hosting behind ICS ? (internet connections sharing) I've never seen that work. I read hundreds of posts a year ago and nobody could get it to work.

Arkaine · December 2002

Try deleting custom.hpk? It could be corrupt or something.
Better yet, don't...just rename it so you'll still have it.

GoleX · December 2002

Are you sure you are opening a map in the command line of your server, you need something like "+map ns_eclipse" somewhere in it.

Budfrog · December 2002

Well! After spending a whole day doing nothing but fettle, log, rienstall, redownload from a different mirror Halflife Dedicated server files and ns files, to no avail might i add, i have given up.
I even installed the whole show on my brothers computer, which has the adsl line, and still nothing. Not a sniff! The only thing that works is Tfc, smooth as silk, not a stuter. So what gives?
Aslo just wondering, if i install Halflife from the cd and then patch it to 4.1.1.0 will the dedicated ns server files work with this?

Ps Thanks to everyone who posted a suggestion! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Xanedon · December 2002

I run behind a linksys router/switch. Havne't had any problems yet. As for useing the CD there shouldn't be any problem with running the server from it. I ran a CS server for a while with my CD version. Got tired of having to to tricks to play with the same computer so I moved my server over to another comp with the client server. Seems to work either way you try it.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='turret.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'> = boom!

-Xan

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