I give up lol

[thxsubwoofers]

Been trying to create a server from 1am, now its 4:46am and I'm about to call it quits lol. I don't know much about computers, and tried posting on the steam forums but no one replies. I'll just copy and paste, and I hope someone can help me out with a tutorial also. I'm using a Vista computer.

I posted this on the steam forums at the end of May
"Ok so basically, i created a counter strike 1.6 server back in september 2008 on my XP computer and with no router. It worked fine back then. So now I want to create a TF2 server, but it won't let any of my friends join? I use team fortress 2 dedicated server, and the first thing i notice is that I can't join my own server. Which back in 2008, i could join my own CS server. Another thing i notice, is that none of my friends could join in. And the message says steam valdiction error or something."
"Ok, so when i create a server using the standard ingame tf2 one, my friend gets this message "LAN servers are restricted to local clients (class C)". My sv_lan is set to 0 and still doesn't work. I also already did steam_appid.txt and still doesn't work. Ok so when i tried, the team fortress 2 dedicated server, my friend gets this message "STEAM validation rejected". I am not using a router, so i don't have the standard 192.168.1........ anyways please help me."

I posted this today
"Need help, why can't I join my own server that I created. It keeps popping up this message "Couldn't allocate any server ip port," I'm not using any router also."

I also followed knucles77075 tutorial on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axg4bOInBwQ

[realchamp]

I believe you host and play on the same PC?

That could be your problem with Team Fortress 2. Try setting up the old Counter-Strike 1,6 server agian and then give it a new try!

[thxsubwoofers]

Yes im trying to host and play TF2 at the same time. Could it be my Vista computer, because before I was using XP? I'll give CS 1.6 a try. I'm a little confused, because I thought setting up a server is easier compared to setting up a server with routers. I thought I could by pass all those port forwarding and stuff.

[realchamp]

Hmm I won't blame Vista in the first round. But playing on the same pc as you're hosting on isn't recommended.

[thxsubwoofers]

Oh lol, what about "Solution 1" in this thread http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/9982. My friend always get this message when he tries to connect though "LAN servers are restricted to local clients (class C)." Even with Sv_lan 0

[realchamp]

Do you host the server from your game? The "create server" button?

[thxsubwoofers]

Yes i do