If You Are Totally New At Running An Ns Server..

McMasters

<div class="IPBDescription">..where do you begin?</div> I'm trying to find a step-by-step page that details what to do to get the NS server running, and change the things everyone wants to change (setting a remote Admin, the server message, the map rotation, etc.)

Where can I go? It is so hard getting 'step 1' in this sort of thing - the GamesNET IRC channels were no help at all..

-McM

Superfly

For starters here is a HLDS server guide. It is NOT an NS guide, I did a simple search on the Internet and this looked pretty simple.

<a href='http://www.ticclan.com/tutorials/blakfishs-serverguide.html' target='_blank'>http://www.ticclan.com/tutorials/blakfishs...erverguide.html</a>

Notice that this is a TFC guide, however, very few core changes occur between MODS. So you could easily use the catch phrase "Seen one seen them all". Most decent MOD developers like the kind folks that made the NS mod have already built a pretty decent server.cfg file for your. All you need to do now is "tweak" it and set an rcon password.

If you are completely lost then open up your server.cfg file in windows notepad and find the section that says "hostname" and change that to whatever name you want your server to be when listed in the server browser.

Then add this line somewhere in the server.cfg file.

rcon_password 12345 <-- Don’t acutely use 12345 make it something that only you will know.

Once you are in the game if you want to execute a server command you must first pull down the console and type your rcon_password line again only this time it will give you access to all of the server-side commands. However, you must preface any command with the word rcon. See Example:

rcon_password <-- this now gives me "Remote Control" to my server from in game.
rcon users <-- this will show me the current list of connected users and their WON id's.
rcon kick "username" will kick the person with the specified username.

Typing the word "cmdlist" in your server console window will display a list of server-side commands.
Typing the word "cvarlist" will show you a list of server-side variables. <-- Allot of these commands are related directly to the mod you are currently running, and will not be universal with other mods.

There is a crash course, if you want more detailed instructions let me know, I will write them up and post them. If you just have a few more questions then post here and I will do my best to respond.