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Offline BFM_ColWlkr

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2009, 04:48:30 PM »
Alright one new thing ...

With the current server, I need people to be able to access the server (to update banlist, hashes, switch rotations, etc.) from a remote location.  The best way to do this would probably be setting up a remote desktop, but perhaps there is a better way.

Either way, could you help me out with either option? :D

Um, at this point you are outside the realm of "normal" Halo server stuff, dedicated or otherwise.

Now you're talking about MACHINE access across the Internet, which is a HUGE can of worms.

Short version: Don't do it.

In order to do it in a manner that's secure enough to be safe, you'd need me there for a couple of weeks to set up corporate-level software and VPN access with certificate generation, etc., etc.

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2009, 12:45:36 PM »
on a dedicated server im running from my house, how do i make it load the maps from a specific folder? (not the program files, halo, maps or whatever folder)

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2009, 02:05:53 PM »
If you want to host a game server, it's more fair to the other players (if they're going to be accessing it from outside your LAN) to have it be dedicated, so that you do not have a "zero" ping and will have to deal with SOME bit of lag, just as everyone else has to.  This is my 2c.

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #18 on: August 02, 2009, 02:28:26 AM »
on a dedicated server im running from my house, how do i make it load the maps from a specific folder? (not the program files, halo, maps or whatever folder)

The maps have to be in the "maps" folder within the Halo CE folder itself, always. (Same as the client.)

You can't put them somewhere else. Sorry.
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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #19 on: August 02, 2009, 03:28:33 AM »
ok well i have a folder on the desktop with the dedicated server program inside and inside that folder i made another MAPS folder and put my modded maps and stuff in there and the server loaded it  ;D

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #20 on: August 02, 2009, 06:46:44 PM »
ok well i have a folder on the desktop with the dedicated server program inside and inside that folder i made another MAPS folder and put my modded maps and stuff in there and the server loaded it  ;D


So... you put them in their Halo CE map folder then....

...Which is exactly what you have to do...

...Which is what I said...

...But you just put the whole hitng in an unusual place (on your desktop)....


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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #21 on: August 03, 2009, 02:55:48 AM »
yea.. lol

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #22 on: April 11, 2010, 06:10:52 PM »
I may have missed somthing, but can you you make it cycle maps on the normal ( non DS )
server? So if you are on BG and the game ends it goes to a diff map.

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #23 on: April 11, 2010, 07:45:37 PM »
On a server that is running from your computer, I don't think there is a way to do that.  I think you have to manually enter in what map and what gametype you want and then the server will go to that map.  I don't think you can make mapcycles.
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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2010, 11:01:23 AM »

Correct: You CANNOT do "map cycles/cycling" in a "normally-hosted" Halo server (aka "Client-run".)

You can only choose the one map at a time to play on, and you do so whenever you (re)start the server from the Halo game client menu.

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #25 on: January 10, 2011, 03:26:16 AM »
Thanks for this thread, Mxy!  =]

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Re: How to: Set up a Halo server
« Reply #26 on: January 10, 2011, 08:41:37 AM »
Thanks for this thread, Mxy!  =]


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