Natural Selection Dedicated Server on Lan Options

[BadLife]

I want to run a dedicated NS 3.04 server on the Lan but the darn thing always tries to connect to the master server. Even if I allow it to use the internet it still wont let clients join. It worked OK in NS 3.03 I had to let everone go to the net then I could kill the connection. Now it wont work at all Any idea how to tell it not to bork off to the net ? This is a Won setup i guess as I have to copy the NSP folder to the Half-life folder. It works OK as a listen server

[BadLife]

OK I figured it out you need to rename your woncomm.lst file in the half-life\valve folder and make a new one replaceing the server names with the IP address of the dedicated server on the lan. Like so


// Server Lists
//
Titan
{
192.168.0.1:6003
192.168.0.1:6003
192.168.0.1:6003
}

Auth
{
192.168.0.1:7002
192.168.0.1:7002
192.268.0.1:7002
}

Master
{
192.168.0.1:27010
192.168.0.1:27010
192.168.0.1:27010
}

ModServer
{
192.168.0.1:27011
192.168.0.1:27011
192.168.0.1:27011
}

Secure
{
192.168.0.1:27012
192.168.0.1:27012
192.168.0.1:27012
}

Of course if you use another internal IP addressing you will have to use it.

Then you need to edit your server.cfg in the NSP folder and make sure it says


///////////////////////////////
// Dedicated server specific //
///////////////////////////////
sv_lan 1
nomaster 1

Then the dedicated server self auths the server and the clients. By the way all of my half-life installs have retail half-life disks with individual CD Keys. I just want to play on the lan and not have to mess with multiple copies of Steam or haveing a connectionto the net up while I can't mointor it

Also you may have to put the woncomm.lst back to play on line I don't know about that as I never play online anymore

[Sandman[SA]]

That's just way to complicated. All you needed to do to keep your dedicated server LAN only was change the sv_lan command in your server.cfg to 1, save, start server. That's it. Everything else you did was overkill and not nessisary.

[BadLife]

I tried that first thing and it did not work however I will try it again just in case I had my head up up my Well anyway I'll give it a shot

[BadLife]

Well with the nomaster 1 and lan 1 it worked but it took 10 minuets to decide not to look at the Won servers. My way it takes 10 seconds

[Sandman[SA]]

nomaster 1 blocks your servers IP address and not from just won-net either, it blocks it from the lan also. You need the master address to connect via lan.

[BadLife]

Strange it works fine with nomaster 1 either way Just takes longer to connect with the Won list guess I'll try it without nomaster 1 and lan 1 and the won list.