How To Set Up A Server?

Zabur

Hey, I've been playing NS and am trying to teach my friends how to play. I would like to set up a private server so that we could play only. We are playing over the internet now over LAN. Also, I will be using the server to play on. So how do I go about setting it up.

A quick repose would be great...because we really want to play tonight...

JHunz

I assuem you don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a dedicated server for this.

open the listenserver.cfg file in your /nsp directory
change the line "pausable 1" to "pausable 0"
change the line "sv_lan 1" to "sv_lan 0"
add the line "sv_cheats 0" if you want cheats off (they're on by default)
add a line "sv_password = <pass>", where <pass> is the password you want the server to have
Save and close the file.

Now start up NS from steam, and go to create server. Choose a map, and hit ok. Your server will start. Now just give your buddy the IP and password, and you're good to go.

If you want to actually set up a more permanent dedicated server, there are some excellent tutorials available in this forum that you can poke around in.