My Server problems

[[AM] madmax]

OK Ladies and Gentlemen,

Well it's time I joined the large group of people bashing their heads against walls because their respective servers are not working properly.

So lets take it from the start, to avoid generic answers.

1.) Firewall on XP has been dealt with.
2.) Ports are all forwarded including master server. Even the one for gamespy!
3.) I have set ServerBehindNAT= to TRUE and FALSE
4.) I have tried turning it on and off again.

Now, If I start my server up from fresh I can see it on the Master server and I have an IP. HURRAH! The problem's start when I get onto the server! I log onto the server and sometimes when the roster screen comes up I cannot click OK and start a game. So I click Disconnect, I then go back to the browser and guess what NO PING! I cannot connect. I then have to restart the server a few times, wait a few minutes, make a cup of tea, sacrifice a goat and what for a solar eclipse to get back to square one.

OK, so say once again I get onto my server and this time I can join or start a game everything is fine and dandy. We have had 6 people on and it worked fine got up to a decent wave and everything ran smoothly. But not all the time! Grex a couple of times logged on and then for no reason was disconnected and guess what happened NO PING! for him even though the rest of us are playing fine.

Finally I've switched a few maps and providing the server hasn't crashed due to the Melee bug I disconnect. But then I want to go back on I think you can guess what happens next...... NO PING! I can't connect now for some reason. This has been the case for a few other people not just myself. If I go back onto the server via a LAN connection (never lets you down) I find that I am still on the server even though I had D/C and was trying to get back on. The only way I can sort it is by kicking my old login off the server, this will prove to be a pain in the arse if people are constantly joining as I will have to keep logging in and kicking people off.

Also you get thrown off or things just generally bugger up when you die and try to change map.

Now I know this is a long post but I wanted to get everything down with a hint of frustration!! Can anyone give me an incite into my problem.

*update!*

PROCEDURE:
1.) Load up server
2.) Connect to server from other comp
3.) Join game
4.) Leave game
5.) Try to reconnect

RESULT: Joins the server starts loading the map and then throws me off. I get this in the server:

Client netspeed is 10000
Login failed: Server is already at capacity.
Close TcpipConnection 82.25.191.171:3851 12/18/07 21:52:13
Open myLevel 12/18/07 21:52:16 82.25.191.171:3851
Open myLevel 12/18/07 21:52:24 192.168.2.7:3858
Client netspeed is 10000
Login failed: Server is already at capacity.
Close TcpipConnection 192.168.2.7:3858 12/18/07 21:52:26
Open myLevel 12/18/07 21:52:27 192.168.2.7:3859
Client netspeed is 10000
Open myLevel 12/18/07 21:52:27 192.168.2.7:3858
Login failed: Server is already at capacity.
Close TcpipConnection 192.168.2.7:3859 12/18/07 21:52:29
Open myLevel 12/18/07 21:52:31 192.168.2.7:3859
Open myLevel 12/18/07 21:53:26 82.25.191.171:3880
Client netspeed is 10000
Login failed: Server is already at capacity.
Close TcpipConnection 82.25.191.171:3880 12/18/07 21:53:27
Open myLevel 12/18/07 21:53:36 82.25.191.171:3881
Client netspeed is 10000
Open myLevel 12/18/07 21:53:37 82.25.191.171:3880
Login failed: Server is already at capacity.
Close TcpipConnection 82.25.191.171:3881 12/18/07 21:53:38

For each time I join it kicks me off and replaces me with a *player* player instead. WHAT THE F**K!!!!

[KiCk3R]

Have you tried disabling bots on the server? seems to me that each time you disconnect it replaces you. Therefore you must have bots enabled.

However, usually when you reconnect it boots the bot and makes room for you.

[[AM] madmax]

I think I had bots disabled but I can't be sure. If you run the shortcut to startup a server does it enable bots as default?

[KiCk3R]

I am not too sure what the default is. But if your replaced by a bot when you leave its likely to be enabled.
Either disable it in your UT2004 ini...
or when creating a server though the game, set the server options to "no bots"


Try and illiminate every possiblity that is effecting this issue and it will help you find the problem!

[[AM] madmax]

What part of the ini do I need to change to ensure bots are disabled then??

I have set it to no bots when creating a server through the game but I still had the same problems.

[KiCk3R]

[KFMod.KFGameType]

Bnobots=TRUE

make sure it is set to that.

[[AM] madmax]

Roger roger. Will check it when I get back in a few weeks.

[[AM] madmax]

Right well I had another go at it and this time I had bots turned off and it still didn't work correctly. Now when I connect I can't click ready and start off a game.

The other problem is that if I disconnect it still keeps me on the server and thats why I can't reconnect.

It disconnects me properly if I connect via LAN. It's just online that gives me the problems!

[[AM] madmax]

Hi guys can anyone answer this problem if not I may give up and just give the computer to a mate!

[Blue]

I´ve got the same problems, sometimes. Did you access your own server via webadmin while trying to connect to it ?

Since what I´m experiencing then is pretty much the same, except that it completely kicks me from my own server, because of the cd key already being in use.

Sometimes I´m even having this problem when I connected via webadmin an hour prior to joining the game. However, sometimes it works even though I´m still connected by webadmin, so uh ... This doesn´t really help, does it ?

Did you even use the webadmin ?

Nah, forget that. I´m pretty sure that it would show up in the logs differently than what you posted above. Mhh ..