Thank you everyone for your suggestions, here are the results of my tests. We were unable to get sv_search_key to work yet, but the ms_force_dedicated_server options worked well. However it seems as though the sv_search_key should be working. If anyone has any input regarding what else I could do, I would love to hear it!
> Try setting sv_search_key in your client as soon as you load Left 4 Dead, > before you do anything else. I found that if I enter the search key after > I've already started the lobby, it doesn't work. This did not work :( > I'am not 100% sure, but i thought you cant use sv_search_key with a > steamgroup... This did not work -- I commented out both sv_steamgroup and sv_steamgroup_exclusive and still could not connect. > sv_cheats 1 > ms_force_dedicated_server Using seperate commands again we tried... sv_cheats 1 ms_force_dedicated_server 173.45.224.233:27015 This worked for us -- was the first we had been able to get to work. We did net sv_search_key on the client and on the server it was set to sv_search_key ninjaturtles > sv_cheats 1;ms_force_dedicated_server x.x.x.x:27030 On the client, we tried using this... sv_cheats 1;ms_force_dedicated_server x.x.x.x:27015 This also worked for us! > Try the search_key without quotes: > sv_search_key ninjaturtles This also did not work. > You CANNOT use the sv_search_key on a steamgroup exclusive server, you can > however assign a steamgroup to the server and still use it. Don't worry, > you won't have a bunch of unknown people joining your server.... soon as you > set sv_search_key NinjaTurtles, only those clients with the search key > NinjaTurtles will find your server. And yes, should be done on both the > client on server without quotes. (I was able to use it yesterday so I'm > guessing it still works :-P) > Walton I tried sv_search_key ninjaturtles & having sv_steamgroup_exclusive 0 in our config and still no luck. > Set: > sv_steamgroup_exlusive 1 to 0 > > Having it as 1 breaks the search key. Either 0 or 1 makes no difference in my experience - however its pretty hard to say for sure since nothing seems to be working :( > sv_steamgroup_exclusive 1 + sv_search_key works fine on my server. It was > the quotes I always had trouble with. Has anyone else gotten > sv_steamgroup_exclusive 1 to work with the sv_search_key? I can't remember > ever having trouble with this. We haven't been able to get it to work, would you mind posting your entire command line & server.cfg (minus your password & etc)? I would LOVE to see someone's config that is working. Thanks, Morgan Humes _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
