DCS World Dedicated Server

[HC_Official]

@USSR_Rik patch notes

Added a new advanced setting for multiplayer servers - “Allow trial only clients” This can be used to prevent accounts with only trial modules registered from joining a server. Can be used to prevent ban evasion. Please note - this is disabled by default.

 

can you tell use what the exact name of this parameter is, so we can add it to ??

our

serverSettings.lua

or

autoexec.cfg

 

 

[Badass1982]

Bump this. +10

[USSR_Rik]

22.07.2021 в 09:19, HC_Official сказал:

can you tell use what the exact name of this parameter is, so we can add it to ??

 

ServerSettings.lua:

["allow_trial_only_clients"] = false,

 

But why do you want to add it 'by hand'? It should appears automatically

[HC_Official]

34 minutes ago, USSR_Rik said:

 

ServerSettings.lua:

["allow_trial_only_clients"] = false,

 

But why do you want to add it 'by hand'? It should appears automatically

 

@USSR_Rik 

Why do I want to add it by hand ?  .......................... because it does NOT appear automatically that is why

If you already have a ServerSettings.lua file it does not add it automatically

Does this go in the  ["advanced section"]  ?

 

example my file

 

 

cfg =
{
    ["listShuffle"] = false,
    ["isPublic"] = true,
    ["description"] = "SRS - 94.23.215.203:5003 - 3 channels Mhz AM\
243 = Main  244 = A2A  245 = A2G\
\
Heli pilots use F10 menu to select tasks from HQ\
\
Server gets restarted at: \
08:00 - 12:00 - 18:00 - 00:00 - GMT",
    ["require_pure_textures"] = false,
    ["version"] = 1,
    ["missionList"] =
    {
         [1] = "D:\\games\\_Saved_games\\DCS.openbeta_ca\\Missions\\Weapons_Training_Freeflight_ca_v1.02.27.miz",

    }, -- end of ["missionList"]
    ["advanced"] =
    {
        ["allow_change_tailno"] = false,
        ["disable_events"] = false,
        ["allow_ownship_export"] = true,
        ["allow_object_export"] = true,
        ["pause_on_load"] = true,
        ["allow_sensor_export"] = true,
        ["event_Takeoff"] = true,
        ["pause_without_clients"] = false,
        ["client_outbound_limit"] = 0,
        ["client_inbound_limit"] = 0,
        ["event_Role"] = true,
        ["allow_change_skin"] = true,
        ["event_Connect"] = true,
        ["event_Ejecting"] = true,
        ["event_Kill"] = true,
        ["event_Crash"] = true,
        ["resume_mode"] = 2,
        ["PingAllowed"] = 300,
        ["maxPing"] = 400,
    }, -- end of ["advanced"]
    ["require_pure_models"] = true,
    ["require_pure_clients"] = true,
    ["name"] = "    1 Havoc Company - 24/7 server   ",
    ["port"] = "10310",
    ["password"] = "",
    ["listLoop"] = false,
    ["bind_address"] = "",
    ["maxPlayers"] = 31,
} -- end of cfg

 

 

 

 

Edited July 23, 2021 by HC_Official

[USSR_Rik]

23.07.2021 в 19:19, HC_Official сказал:

because it does NOT appear automatically

It DOES appears automatically. Trial clients are not allowed by default - so, no option in serverSettings.lua. But as soon as you allow them and save your new settings in web-GUI, this option will be written to config file.

[iFoxRomeo]

@USSR_Rik

Unfortunately there is no option for trial clients in the WebGUI. Current OB, dedicated Server. 

Edited July 26, 2021 by iFoxRomeo

[HC_Official]

hmmmm, when I on advanced bit  (using DCS/2.7.4.9847 dedicated server)

tho I have to say this is not a great way of doing this (I hardly if ever use WEBGUI)

Edited July 26, 2021 by HC_Official

[USSR_Rik]

3 часа назад, iFoxRomeo сказал:

Unfortunately there is no option for trial clients in the WebGUI. Current OB, dedicated Server. 

Drop browser cache: Ctrl+F5

[iFoxRomeo]

5 hours ago, USSR_Rik said:

Drop browser cache: Ctrl+F5

I cleared the cache, installed a new browser,

ran a full repair, deleted the serversettings.lua, renamed the complete dcs server folder in the savedgames folder to force a new set of config files, but no joy. This option doesn't show in the webGUI.

But it is in the serversettings.lua, so I can edit it there at least.  

[USSR_Rik]

Which browser do you use? Note: there is old known issue with IE, Edge 

[iFoxRomeo]

2 hours ago, USSR_Rik said:

Which browser do you use? Note: there is old known issue with IE, Edge 

Edge Chromium 92.0.902.55(64bit)

Firefox 90.0.2(64bit) 

Don't show it.

 

FireFox was newly installed, only to test this

 

But finally:

Safari for iOS 14.7

 

Really strange. 

Edited July 27, 2021 by iFoxRomeo

[Captain Orso]

I have two questions.

 

1. How can I start the server without it doing and update check? The method posted very early in this thread doesn't work for me. The server simply crashes.

 

2. How can I prevent the server from automatically starting a mission when it is started. I want to be able to pick the first and not have the server just grabbing a mission.

[HC_Official]

4 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

I have two questions.

 

1. How can I start the server without it doing and update check? The method posted very early in this thread doesn't work for me. The server simply crashes.

 

2. How can I prevent the server from automatically starting a mission when it is started. I want to be able to pick the first and not have the server just grabbing a mission.

1. make sure you are starting dcs.exe and NOT dcs_updater.exe

2. set you mission list to be empty

 

["missionList"] =
    {
      ,
    }, -- end of ["missionList"]

 

[Captain Orso]

Thanks for the reply!

 

46 minutes ago, HC_Official said:

1. make sure you are starting dcs.exe and NOT dcs_updater.exe

 

I copied the original desktop icon and changed the target to "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta Server\bin\DCS.exe" "--server --norender --webgui".

 

This crashes after 30 to 60 seconds.

 

46 minutes ago, HC_Official said:

2. set you mission list to be empty

 

["missionList"] =
    {
      ,
    }, -- end of ["missionList"]

 

 

I have no idea where to put this code.

[HC_Official]

remove

--webgui

 

If you dont know how to set-up a dcs server it might be time to read the set-up guide

C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config

serverSettings.lua

is the file

[Captain Orso]

Thanks for replying again.

 

5 hours ago, HC_Official said:

remove

--webgui

 

Still crashes. I tried with just --server, still crashes. I've tried with just DCS.exe without parameter, still crashes.

 

5 hours ago, HC_Official said:

 

If you dont know how to set-up a dcs server it might be time to read the set-up guide

C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config

serverSettings.lua

is the file

 

Where is there a setup guide? My installation doesn't have one.

 

Yeah, I see how to clear the list of mission out.

 

Isn't there a possibility to just start the server while not starting a missìon?

[HC_Official]

4 minutes ago, Captain Orso said:

Where is there a setup guide? My installation doesn't have one.

 

 

search these forums

[Vasilich]

del

Edited October 17, 2021 by Vasilich

[Captain Orso]

On 8/20/2021 at 6:14 PM, HC_Official said:

search these forums

There is none. There is a guide for running the DCS client as a server but not the DEDICATED SERVER which is a different program.

[Mr_sukebe]

6 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

There is none. There is a guide for running the DCS client as a server but not the DEDICATED SERVER which is a different program.

 

???
Check the first page of this thread, which has some guidance and link to more detailed guidance.

[Captain Orso]

16 hours ago, Mr_sukebe said:

 

???
Check the first page of this thread, which has some guidance and link to more detailed guidance.

Thanks for the reply, Mr_Sukebe, but all that refers to the DCS client running as a server, even if they say "dedicated server" they mean dcs.exe running by itself as a server without anyone using it to fly an aircraft. That is not the downloadable dedicated server software, which from the get-go had different command line parameters.

Even asking in this thread about how to start the real dedicated server without updating, I got nothing but answers about how to run the client sw and the bitchy remarks that I didn't look enough.

This is exactly why I requested to have a separate sub-forum for dedicated server discussions, but was directed here, which is like asking technical questions about the Boeing 777 and getting told to look in the 747 sub-forum 

[Mr_sukebe]

When you install the Dedicated server, it set up 2 onscreen icons.

one is to run the server.

the other opens a browser window which is used to control the server.

 

there’s a + button and a trashcan to add/remove mission files and basic commands for starting and stopping a mission.

 

within settings, there’s a variety of switchable options.

 

The only other point that springs to mind is:

- you need to update your router with a port forwarding rule (10308)

- I don’t remember there being a turn off option for the server.  Do that via windows task manager

 

and that’s about it really

[Captain Orso]

And if once again DCS puts an update out just before my group meets, and the update needs an hour or more to download, how do I start the server without starting the download, because the binary executed when starting the dedicated server is DCS_updater.exe?

[HC_Official]

create a shortcut to dcs.exe and use that instead

[Captain Orso]

10 minutes ago, HC_Official said:

create a shortcut to dcs.exe and use that instead

I did, long ago. It doesn't work. The server crashes during startup.

Thanks for suggesting something you've never tried yourself and that doesn't work.