Hello everyone. After working out a few bugs and talking a bit with the community here, I've decided to put together a video on how to setup a multiplayer server. Here's a link along with the topics I cover in the video. Topics: 1. External IP addressing and dynamic DNS 2. Port forwarding 3. Setting up custom passwords 4. Connecting to the server Video: Hope you guys enjoy it and I hope more that it helps you all out! Cheers
What would you do for a router that doesn't have port forwarding? Mine has virtual servers and port triggering.
Hey SlothMonster, great guide. I was wondering if it was possible to set up a server using a third party host such as Hamachi? I am going to give it a shot, but was wondering if you had any experience with it.
Hey thanks! I've used Hamachi in the past. Not so much recently. I've seen that a lot of other people are using these services so it appears they do work. After making this guide I've been contemplating making similar guides for Hamachi, Tungle, and Evolve.
(I have a router like that) Virtual Servers = Port Forwarding Port Triggering = Detect data passing outwards, allow incoming.
I followed your guide and many others with the same info but I can't connect to my server with the external ip or the no-ip DNS. I can connect locally to it so it is working but not using the external. The port forwarding is fine, but just won't connect. Any other things it might be?
It gave the error for no host or something. I figured it out. I couldn't connect using the external ip but friends could, I had to connect using internal ip. No idea why. Also, how do I go about updating my server when an update comes out?
Glad you got it all figured out. As far as the updates go just run the updates through Steam if you're hosting from your own computer. If you're running it on a dedicated box I don't have experience setting it up that way so unfortunately I can't help you there.
I've never actually used Evolve before, but I'm sure I could figure it out well enough to do another tutorial vid.
When i change the password i google my ip adress "what is my ip" then i type in my ip and my password then it says: Join failed! Error connecting to '(Ip adress)' my server config is saved and closed the server is up and everything but i didn't portforward not knowinghow and all so could you help stloth?
