Cannot connect to my dedicated server

Jackall

I have a dedicated server for NS2. I have followed the wiki and it seems to start. Here is the output:

D:\Games\Steam\naturalselection2>server.exe -name "Oblivion Server - oblivionserver.com" -config_path "D:\Games\Steam\naturalselection2\config" -limit 20
Press Tab to open the console window
Press Ctrl-C to exit
Build 228
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 4920
<b>Steam_: BugslayerUtil.DLL not found</b>
Connected to Steam servers
Server : 0.000000 : Loading VM Server
Loading config://ServerConfig.json
Loading config://ServerAdmin.json
Loading config://BannedPlayers.json
Loading config://MapCycle.json
Loading config://ConsistencyConfig.json
Hashed 1 game_setup.xml files for consistency
Hashed 640 *.lua files for consistency
Hashed 32 *.fx files for consistency
Hashed 13 *.screenfx files for consistency
Hashed 63 *.surface_shader files for consistency
Hashed 3 *.fxh files for consistency
Hashed 2 *.render_setup files for consistency
Hashed 2 *.shader_template files for consistency
Loading 'maps/ns2_summit.level'
<b>Error: Couldn't open file 'models/props/refinery/refinery_fan_blade_01_big.animation_graph'
Error: Couldn't open file 'models/props/refinery/refinery_fan_blade_01.animation_graph'</b>
Finished loading 'maps/ns2_summit.level'

As you can see I get a few messages. Are those normal? I have updated again to see if anything is wrong and I get nothing from the steamcmd.

I am running on Windows 2008R2 server. I have a dedicated ip.

I have opened up ports 27015-16 as you can see below:

<img src="http://freeurl.ws/ports.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />

I was able to connect to it when I had webmin setup and it was listing players and send rcon commands.

Anyone see what I am doing wrong?

Jackall

As a test I disabled the windows firewall and was able to connect.

Am I missing a port or something?!

Maxunit

If you disabled the firewall and it worked, then you most likely forgot to whitelist/unblock a port in your firewall, yep.

Jackall

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um thx for the input but I gathered that...

I was asking if I missed opening a port.

Whosat

Can you add -port 27015 to your command line arguments and see if it works?

And yes those messages are normal. They should not affect gameplay :)

endar

Open up the UDP ports, TCP is not required.