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Dedicating + IP
16. July 2006 - 23:47
Hey guys. I've been looking through the forum, and other forums, bunch of other sites and tutorials, read through the docs. This all isn't working so I really need your guys help. So I created my server, I brought up the xp_dedicated.bat, and then ran q3 and /exec server ... It's all working, but my friend cannot connect. First I can't find the ip that he would connect to. I used whatsmyip.com and then gave him the default q3 server port, he tried those and it wouldn't work still. Searched through q3 servers and Xfire, and it's not listing this. So on other places they had some stuff you can add to your .bat file, so I played around with those, still nothing. Anyways, wondering if you guys have any suggestions?
16. July 2006 - 23:49
#1
Mexico
Dedicating + IP
Most likely you are behind a router so you'll need to forward the ports to your server, let us know what reouter you have and i'll try to help.
17. July 2006 - 0:03
#3
Mexico
Dedicating + IP
Use your browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox, for example) to configure the router. Entering the router’s IP into the address box and pressing enter does this. For most Linksys, the IP is 192.168.1.1; for Netgear and D-Link, 192.168.0.1; Belkin, 192.168.2.1; Siemens, 192.168.254.254.
If you tell me the brand and model of the router that will be easier, if any of the ip's above let you access your router config page look for ip forwarding and add your pc IP let's say your ip is 192.168.1.10 so add that ip and open tcp ports from 27960/29000 or just the port you'll use for quake that should enable the access to your server.
17. July 2006 - 0:15
#4
Dedicating + IP
Ok I did that, so how can I tell if it's up? When I go to search through the q3 servers, all the ctf servers show up and disappear 
I don't get it. But I also search on xfire, doesn't show mine. Any other way I can check? It lists it under the lan servers though in q3.
17. July 2006 - 23:37
#5
Dedicating + IP
Well I realized I don't need to have it dedicated, just need it in listen mode. So I made a server in listen mode, and I couldn't find it on Xfire or Q3 server list (but I didn find it on lan server list). So I found theres 2 ways to start the server (for listen mode I think). 1) Start up q3, go into E+ mod, go into multiplayer and create a server making it pure and not dedicated. 2) Start up xp_server.bat .. Im not sure which one I need to do. But I made sure my ports are open, I wasn't sure which to use:
192.168.0.1
or
192.168.0.100
maybe it's neither of those, but I still opened up both of those, TCP range 27960-29000 (I can get a screenie if you want), and enabled is checked for both.
My friend tried connecting to my ip which I checked on both www.whatismyip.com and www.network-tools.com (both are the same) and he tried connecting without writing the port, then with ports: 27960, 27962, 29000 .. None of those worked.
Any suggestions anyone?
18. July 2006 - 0:11
#6
Mexico
Dedicating + IP
192.168.0.1 must be the ip of your router, so 192.168.0.100 must be the ip of your pc used to host the server, also server must run in dedicated mode and then if you didn't assing any other net_port it will run on default port 27960, so once ports are forwarrded to 192.168.0.100 you just get your public ip lets's say it is 201.242.145.32:27960, so if you have the screen of the router config pages just post it to see if everything is correct, or add me to msn and we can work from there.
18. July 2006 - 0:25
#7
Dedicating + IP
Kk theres the ports. Added you on msn but we can post here too. Either way as soon as this works im gonna write up a mini guide on here so ppl don't have to run into this problem like I did. Cause I got a friend who's having same problem as me.
18. July 2006 - 1:05
#8
Mexico
Dedicating + IP
Just to make sure on ports use both that will enable tcp/udp and also aplication should say quake3.exe and not E+, besides that everything seems fine.
I'll be on msn a bit later, in case this still doesn't work, but i think it should work.
18. July 2006 - 13:43
#9
Dedicating + IP
Well, first, make sure you open ports for heartbeats. I cant remember exactly wich port is it now, i think its 27959, do a search for a post by unplayer, he states the exact port (use keywords "port" "heartbeat").
second, you have to run your server as dedicated 2
[code:1]quake3.exe +set fs_game excessiveplus +set dedicated 2 +exec <your>.cfg[/code:1]
then, make sure your server.cfg has teh following lines in it
[code:1]//Master Servers
set sv_master1 "master3.idsoftware.com"
set sv_master2 "master0.gamespy.com"
set sv_master3 "master.kali.net"
set sv_master4 "master.quake3arena.com"
set sv_master5 "master0.excessiveplus.net"[/code:1]
if you dont do all of the above your server WILL NOT show up in game browser or on spider, or on any other server search program.
18. July 2006 - 17:10
#10
Dedicating + IP
Aright so first of all, I tried adding quake3 to the application name. The size of the textbox is the most I can put into it, I can't fit in quake3.exe .. just quake3. So I put, 'quake3' .. I set the Protocol to both, and I couldn't find unplayers post on heartbeats and ports so I just checked the port of the place it's sending a heartbeat to (I think thats where im supposed to look anyways)
master0.gamespy.com resolved to 207.38.11.34:27950
Sending heartbeat to master0.gamespy.com
Resolving master.kali.net
master.kali.net resolved to 66.165.122.194:27950
Sending heartbeat to master.kali.net
Resolving master.quake3arena.com
master.quake3arena.com resolved to 192.246.40.56:27950
Sending heartbeat to master.quake3arena.com
Resolving master0.excessiveplus.net
master0.excessiveplus.net resolved to 62.75.222.245:27950
Sending heartbeat to master0.excessiveplus.net
So I made the start range of the ports I have open to, '27950' instead of, '27960'. I added that list of code to the bottem of my server.cfg and double checked that my xp_dedicated.bat matches the code you wrote. So I started up xp_dedicated.bat and waited about 5 - 10 minutes. I checked the server list on XFire (none match my hostname), not on Excessiveplus.net spider, and I tried checking quake 3 servers =S But lately theres been this problem where I search for capture the flag servers, and it lists a server when it finds one and about half a second after it lists the server it takes it off the list. So I can't 100% tell if my server was on there but I looked really close and checked a couple times and I don't think I saw a, 'DBlock Practice' pop up (which is my hostname). Am I supposed to wait a bit longer or something?
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Wow fast reply hehe thx
Right so I don't have a firewall btw, forgot to mention that. But I do have VM and usually have it on, and on the VM is a firewall. But dunno if that matters. I do have a router -- I have Ethernet Cable/DSL Router w/ 4 port switch. (not sure if thats the info you need sorry. Im a n00b 
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