Just like starting over...

[Flak]

Hi I have been a server admin in the Unreal Tournament series going on 9 years. This is my first venture out into the world of SDS and its a little overwhelming. My Team Fortress 2 server is installed and running, but I'm lost where to go from here. Is there a wiki out there anywhere or am I missing some help files to get me started? I'm having a hard time finding documentation.

It's so annoying not knowing what I am doing again. This is so different from UT servers! I can't even figure out how to change my server name! :p

Thank you for any help you can give.

[Drocona]

Well I can confirm that there is no documentation, 90% of all documentation totally available for all the games on the dedicated server is written by forum members on these forums.

Since TF2 is new and just released we haven't wrote a tutorial on certain settings, overall since it works on the same dedicated server as the rest of the source games the configuration is the same, only differences are the actual game specific settings.

I think someone posted the new commands during this week but I'll have to see if I can find that post.
You could try the search too.

If you have any questions feel free to ask

[Flak]

Awesome thank you I at least figured out how to change my server name lol. Please forgive me if I ask really stupid questions! Foremost on my mind right now is:

How do I log in as admin?
How do I kick and ban?

Wow, I am so glad I found this site Thank you for your help.

[Muppet]

Flak Wrote:Awesome thank you I at least figured out how to change my server name lol. Please forgive me if I ask really stupid questions! Foremost on my mind right now is:

How do I log in as admin?
How do I kick and ban?

Wow, I am so glad I found this site Thank you for your help.

Basic admin in SRCDS is know as 'rcon'. In your server.cfg you should have made a line that says:

Code:

rcon_password "xxx"

You then go onto your server, open the console and type:

Code:

rcon_password "xxx"

This effectively logs you in as admin on the server. Next to kick/ban you need to preceed these commands with "rcon" again. Best way to kick/ban players is to first find their userid (not steamid). In console type 'status'. This will return a list of players on the server, each line starting with #21, #15, #7 etc (or it should do at least ). So now to kick them you would use the command:

Code:

rcon kickid <userid>

e.g. rcon kickid 21

Exact same applies for ban except you need to specify a time limit to the ban in minutes (i think).

Code:

rcon banid <minutes> <userid>

e.g. rcon banid 0 21

Where '0' would be permanent.

Or better yet, download HLSW (google it) - all you need to do is enter your server IP and rcon password and you can remote kick/ban anyone plus a number of other things.

Please, correct me if im wrong anywhere anyone.

[Flak]

Wow, I just love you guys, thank you so much muppet!!