<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 12-Nov-08, at 2:29 PM, Matthew Simmons wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Alright,<br><br>First, can the client connect to other servers. If not, can the client connect to a non-activision-authenticating server (you can try mine:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://141.216.27.95">141.216.27.95</a>) </span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can connect to all kinds of private servers without issue.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "> If not, then there is a problem from the client side. If those tests pass, then try setting the dedicated variable in your startup script to "1". </span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>I had already tried this.. i had experimented with all 3 settings.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "> If that still does not work, try running the script in normal mode without mods.</span></blockquote><div><br></div>I had experimented with this as well and also combined with the above suggestions as well.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><br><br>e.g.: /home/cod/cod2_lnxded +set dedicated 1 +map_rotate<br><br>If you need to choose the ipaddress then add the set net_ip variable in. If that still does not work, then try re-arrainging the orders of the variable sets in the startup script ensuring that executing cfg file then map_rotate is always at the end.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>I will try this, however I suspect it will have little effect due to the fact it all works great when connecting on hte local lan.</div><div><br></div><div>d</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>