Got a dedicated server up according to the helpfull guide. Unblocked the ports 27015 and 27011 in windows firewall and on my linksys router. Its also giving me the IP of my server as 192.168.1.101:27015, which is wrong. Right now I can see the server only when I add it to favorites, my first problem.

Secondly when I try to connect to that server it spits out this error message in the dedicated server logs.


On the connecting screen when I try to connect it prompts for my steam password saying my session has expired. Enter it in and it goes back to start connecting again and thus asks the same question.


Hopefully someone can give me some pointers, now its back to trying to fix it myself.

This is all generic Steam stuff. I've never had any problems with the Linux DS, I'd suggest trying the steampowered.com forums.

Sorry .

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"If they rape and kill me, I hope they kill me first. That way, I sort of win."

Well I wasn't to sure if it was or not.


Anyways I fixed the problem of connecting by deleting clientregistry.blob.

still doesn't show up on the server list. :/

Well it appears deleting clientregistry.blob fixed all my problems.

To bad I can't play on my own dedicated server though. Heh.

There may be 2 issues here in not being able to join your own DS.

1. Set up your DS without a steam account. Steam used to require this but no longer does.

2. Assuming that you are running your DS behind your personal router, try using your internal IP address and port to access your server rather than connecting to it through the server list.

looks to me like your server cant connect to the steam auth servers.

try to force the server's ip to your internet ip

+ FROG +

i have had this problem

you need to connect via your internal IP, that will clear it up real quick

I was wondering how do you set up a dedicated server without steam?

You don't.

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yes you can. use valve's steamless dedserver tool. look on the righthand side of the window, it is over there. there is one for windows and one for linux. http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=getsteamnow