Hello guys, so I have searched all over the forums and the internet the last 2 days...so I thought I should register now and maybe I find some help here. First of all I really like Rfactor 2 so far very much, it´s a great game overall. I only have a problem to get my own Dedicated Server ready to go I think this has someting to do with my ports or IP as I am really a beginner in these kind of things I would really appreciate some help to get him going. At the moment I have opened the following ports in my router : 54297 TCP/UDP 54347 TCP/UDP 443 TCP/UDP I can open and join my server without a problem but nobody else can join. I have switched of the Windows Vista firewall and also my Antivir is off. So I don´t get the point why nobody can join ? Did I miss someting ? The server is called " Red White 1893 Funserver " Mod: Renault Megane Track: Portugal GT Layout. He is open right now and shown in the Lobby of Rfactor 2 if anybody want to test him out this would be great. Already thanks for the help coming in. Regards Itchy
wow it seems a guy just connected to my server ! this is great ;-) I tell you guys tomorrow if everythings still alright !
Have a look here, you don´t need to forward/allow port 443. What you do need, if you want to use vMods and custom skin propagation is to enable the HTTP server and forward/allow its port. Cheers, Marcus
Hello again, sorry that I need too pull up this thread again... but I think better then to start a new one. I have now managed to set up a DEDI Server on my PC which I also use to play so far so good. I now have a Dell laptop ( I5 CPU ) so the laptop should be able to host a dedi server I already put all the rfactor data on my laptop and I really want to use my Laptop as a Dedi because he could run 24/7. So I set up a server on my normal pc everything works fine I can connect and people can connect too. Then I try to set up a server on my laptop ( without reactivating or login ) just go to the lower right of the launcher an try to host this works and I also can find my Server in the Server List when trying to join " Server connection failed " ....... The funny part is if I then want to go back to my Server which was hosted via my PC it also say " Connection failed " and then I need to restart my router.... and then it works again from my normal pc. I also tried restarting the router and then open straight a server from my Laptop but that´s also not working. I am really a newbie in this subject, but I have opened the correct ports at my router ( people can join, download vmods ect.) so what´s the difference between my pc and my laptop ? I have deactivated the firewall on my laptop, no antivir running so I can´t find the problem ! If one of you server experts could help this would be great !!! If you guys need any additional information's just let me know Many thanks in advance ! Regards Nick
did you opened the ports for both of them (pc and laptop)? routers generates "internal" ip-adresses for the machines hanging on it. you must forwarding ports for each ip. would be good with different ports
Thanks for the response ! I think we have found the problem... I have only opened the Ports for my PC thought because it is set on the router that it will count for all pc´s connected to that router. So when at home I check the ip adress of my laptop and then open the ports also for the laptop ip adress. I had really trouble to get the right Ports forwarded so I would like to forward the exact same ports as I have done for my pc because I am sure these ports are working correct or could this cause trouble ? Should I check the Multiplayer.ini on my Rfactor laptop installation and use these ports ? Anyway thanks for the help already !
yes and notice: the ports in the multiplayer.ini on your pc should be different to the multiplayer.ini on your laptop
okay thanks! I now can connect to my server which is running on my laptop... it only seems that the "get mod" feature is not working. I have build a mod via modmaker ( Clio@croft ) but when trying to connect to the server it says " searching for mod " like we all know nothing showed up.... but I was running a Vmod ( Megane@poznan ) on my pc without a problem. I have forwarded the following ports : View attachment 7258 do I maybe miss something ? really close to get it done a 100 % I think
Have you put that vMod into the Packages folder on your laptop, too? If it is "only" installed but not present as a .rfmod file in that directory, the "Get mod" feature doesn´t work. Those are the default ports, and forwarded to one IP address only. I take it Nick-PC-1 is your laptop? Have you changed the Multiplayer.ini on the laptop? FWIW, you can at least clean up the port forwardings a little, you only need 54297 (UDP), 54347 (TCP), 64297 (TCP). Cheers, Marcus
