PSYKOnz Posted May 1, 2020 Posted May 1, 2020 Hi there. I have had a hell of a day. I was running a server and successfully hosting the dcs server to myself and my friends. I repeat it was working fine on this stand alone machine. Serving missions to me locally over lan and to my friends over the internet. Cut to today. Why is not important but I had to format my server and reinstall windows 10. Finally got it rebuilt and installed dcs. Aside from a few admin programs like mbam and Dropbox dcs is the only thing on the machine. I booted the server, created the login stuff and got the machine ready. Added the mods and missions. Booted server. Server boots and I have access to the GUI. Everything is set up and the server is successfully running the missions Test time. Open dcs on my pc. Try to connect. “Server offline” Check ip and settings. They were correct. Remove server password just incase “Server offline” Asked mates to check. They all confirmed server offline when doing ip connect and could not detect it in the games list *IMPORTANT NOTE* All relevant ports are still open and forwarded as they where for the last setup I have been to canyouseeme and confirmed that both ports are open My friend was able to access the server GUI through the dcs profile and was able to work with the server. Reset it, change missions etc. Pc is set to private network and dcs server has been allowed through the fire wall (the one that comes up on install) I have also manually allowed “dcs updater.exe” through the firewall So my question? Why the hell is it saying “server offline” As I post this the clock has just Ticked from 11 hours work to 12 hours work. I’m out of ideas. Please help me dcs forums, your my only hope Tomcat, Tomcat über allen
PSYKOnz Posted May 1, 2020 Author Posted May 1, 2020 Well, I think I’ve figured it out. I can’t believe it but some how I mixed up the 2 installers. I managed to install the stable dcs server not the open beta server. Like I said it’s been a long day. I’ll reinstall it with the open beta and see if the problem goes away. I’m sure it will. Head is hung in shame right now. I’m highly embarrassed Tomcat, Tomcat über allen
Rudel_chw Posted May 1, 2020 Posted May 1, 2020 ... I’m highly embarrassed Don’t be ... always this type of issue are what gives us experience. Not many share that experience so that others can benefit from it too, so kudos for that. :thumbup: For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Phoenix FR Posted May 1, 2020 Posted May 1, 2020 May you confirm that your problem is gone. I'm having that knid of problem, except thta i'm the only one who can connect to the sever. All other players have the same issue you described.
PSYKOnz Posted May 1, 2020 Author Posted May 1, 2020 I can confirm that my problem is gone. Wrong install was the culprit I was tired, stressed and worst of all rushing to get the server up for my mates and I installed the wrong version. I’m not a great reader and I also didn’t have my glasses on so it was really a comedy of errors that led to the problem. The big lesson here for me is to slow down and take time to get things right the first time Now with the correct version installed all is well Any time you can learn from a mistake is a good thing. I’m embarrassed but pleased I stuck with it, solved it and learned a valuable lesson Cheers guys :) Tomcat, Tomcat über allen
PSYKOnz Posted May 1, 2020 Author Posted May 1, 2020 May you confirm that your problem is gone. I'm having that knid of problem, except thta i'm the only one who can connect to the sever. All other players have the same issue you described. Have they tried direct connect? Give them the ip from the server including the port number. Sometimes my friends have to connect that way Don’t be ... always this type of issue are what gives us experience. Not many share that experience so that others can benefit from it too, so kudos for that. :thumbup: Thanks mate :) This is why I didn’t take it down, even tho I’m embarrassed by the mistake if it helps even one person it is all worth it :) Tomcat, Tomcat über allen
Phoenix FR Posted May 1, 2020 Posted May 1, 2020 Have they tried direct connect? Give them the ip from the server including the port number. Sometimes my friends have to connect that way Already tried, and direct connect don't fix the problem. :cry: I can't explain that i'm the only one who can connect on the server.
PSYKOnz Posted May 1, 2020 Author Posted May 1, 2020 And there on the same version (beta or stable) and you’ve confirmed that your ports are open through canyouseeme.org? Tomcat, Tomcat über allen
Phoenix FR Posted May 2, 2020 Posted May 2, 2020 Yes same version, and port are open on the server. Yesterday we found something else with one of my buddies (can't check with others but will do asap), we don't have the same list of servers. His list have less servers than mine.
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