Just a quick update. If you have a password set, you can connect to the
server from a lobby using ms_force_dedicated_server but it does not
prompt you for the password (it just connects and starts the game). If
you direct-connect then you get prompted for the password.
- Dave
David Parker wrote:
> This brings me back to something I said several times when the srcds for L4D
> first came out: Why can't you set sv_password on a server and still connect
> to it from the lobby? If I recall correctly, the behavior used to be that a
> server with sv_password set was removed from the pool, and you could *only*
> direct connect. I haven't tested it since they introduce
> ms_force_dedicated_server, so maybe you can also connect to one from the
> lobby now. Does anyone know if this works? It just seems like you might
> want to lock a server down so that only certain people can play on it. With
> both sv_steamgroup_exclusive and sv_search_key, anyone can join the game once
> there are players on it. So, if you and a friend want to play co-op on your
> server without people from the public joining in the other two slots, you
> really have no good way to do that. Is this correct?
>
> Also, I got a reply to my original post from one of the Valve devs. It
> appears they may have broken sv_stemgroup_exclusive while adding the ability
> for servers to belong to multiple groups. I think they're working on the
> problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Coldorak <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D sv_steamgroup_exclusive broken?
> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
> <[email protected]>
>
>> On my servers, I've put a whitelist plugin, so only the players
>> from my
>> community can connect, the other ones are kicked before the end
>> of the
>> connection.
>>
>> Cold
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> We have found the search key to be fairly ineffective for our
>> community.> It's a pain in the butt for people to remember to
>> use when they want to
>>> jump
>>> on one of our dedicated servers. When we talked it over,
>> nobody wanted to
>>> deal with it.
>>>
>>> I used to run one public and three Steamgroup only
>> servers. At this point,
>>> I've taken down all four. I may or may not put one or
>> two back up as
>>> Steamgroup exclusive once Valve resolves this.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, I've asked the guys what else they'd like to
>> play. My
>>> guess is that for now, they'll ask that we put up one or two
>> DoD:S servers
>>> and/or a no Honor AA3 server.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Adam Nowacki
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Yes, its broken, but you can get same as before behavior by
>> setting> > sv_search_key to some very random string :D
>>>> David A. Parker wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Following the latest L4D update, my Steam-group-exclusive
>> L4D servers
>>>>> seem to be open to anyone. Both server have these
>> lines in their
>>>> configs:
>>>>> sv_steamgroup XXXXXX
>>>>> sv_steamgroup_exclusive 1
>>>>>
>>>>> (XXXXXX is substituted for the group ID, of course)
>>>>>
>>>>> When I type "find steamgroup" in each server's console, it
>> returns> this:
>>>>> "sv_steamgroup" = "XXXXXX" ( def. "" )
>>>>> notify
>>>>> - The IDs of the steam groups that this server
>> belongs to, seperated
>>>>> by commas. You can find group IDs on the admin profile
>> pages in the
>>>>> Steam community.
>>>>> "sv_steamgroup_exclusive" = "1" ( def. "0" )
>>>>> - If set, only members of Steam group will be
>> able to join the server
>>>>> when it's empty, public people will be able to join the
>> server only if
>>>>> it has players.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, the cvars are set correctly, it just appears that
>>>>> sv_steamgroup_exclusive is no longer being honored.
>> Is anyone else
>>>>> seeing this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
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