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Server Discussion / Re: Need to limit clients to only ONE paintball server

« on: October 28, 2011, 05:29:38 PM »

Hey everyone, 

I got this to work like a charm.  Thanks for the help and advice.

QUICK REVIEW: 
I want to set up the game behind a firewall on a private LAN.  I don't want players to see other paintball servers, just my server.  Also, I don't want them to do a global login.  This is both for "rules" reasons where I work, and to make it easy for players to hit the correct server right away.  Also, I can image the lab full of computers the same, so the settings will be consistent.

DIRECTIONS:
(1)  edit serverlist.dat found in the Paintball2 --> pball folder in Windows, and delete all server entries in the file.
(2)  on individual computers, edit the hosts file.  Add the following "mapping" at the end of the hosts file:

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127.0.0.1       dplogin.com
127.0.0.1       www.dplogin.com

Blocking www.dplogin.com is probably not necessary, since blocking the first entry did the job, but I did it anyway just to make sure.  NOTE:  this will totally block the domain, including access to these forums, etc.  So the players can't visit this website for tips, etc...

That's all it took.  Once I "flushed" serverlist.dat, the only server that showed up was mine :-)

My private server is now ready to go for up to 34 players.

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Server Discussion / Re: Need to limit clients to only ONE paintball server

« on: October 26, 2011, 12:12:05 PM »

This is a lab situation, and I have the ability to image the entire lab, so I can edit the HOSTS file and make the change stick.  It's an XP lab with Steadystate, so changes will be permanent.  I'll give that a go and report back on how it went.

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Server Discussion / Re: Need to limit clients to only ONE paintball server

« on: October 25, 2011, 09:27:45 PM »

I was wondering if I messed with the HOSTS file on Windows if I could block the other servers?  Maybe redirect the global server to localhost or something?

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Server Discussion / Need to limit clients to only ONE paintball server

« on: October 25, 2011, 12:39:20 PM »

Hello,  I need to set up a private paintball server on a LAN where the clients can't access the internet or the other Paintball servers.  So I need my server (which I've set up and which already works) to be the ***ONLY*** paintball server that the players can see.

My Question:  How can I make it so the clients only see my server and no other servers.

Thanks in advance,
Dan