No friends, you have to make the server IP a "favorite"

It's in steam in the top menus somewhere. Bloody hard to find it took me a while to dig and finally found it. Then go to CloD and it should appear. Sometimes it takes a few hours. Gotta love steam..

It looks like a firewall error but I have tried it with the firewall off. Same problem. I have also tried starting it with the account that I used to buy the game (mine :))

Ill work on it some more later.

To be honest I dont feel greatfull for anything. Shouldnt the devs be greatfull that people like us are prepared to invest our money to potentially increase their sales? Our dedicated servers cost a lot of money, we run them for love not money, Im out of pocket most months but its my hobby so ....

That said if anyone wants a real dedicated box give me a shout :)

Online flight sims are a bit of a niche market, I dont want companies to stop developing them but we do pay for a product at the end of the day, and the customer is always right :)

I am very keen to get this working because there are a lot of people relying on me getting it working.

Got the server up & running. A couple of people have joined mission OK, but I cannot join the server. Hosting server & playing on same box. Will look back in this thread, IIRC there was some info on setting up server & playing on same machine. Thanks for help.

Bone Head what sort of router you have between your server and Internet?

In command prompt can you type "ipconfig", post your IP and gateway address.

Then go to www.whatismyip.com

Does the website show the IP address or the gateway address?

If it shows the gateway - you still have to port forward on the gateway even if firewall off.

Its a dedicated leased line, I have lots of IP addresses, lots of servers hosting IL2, Rise of Flight, Red Orchestra (steam), TF2, TS3, web servers etc.

Im fairly confident its not a routing problem. I need to go back over this thread and make sure I havent missed a setting somewhere like an IP address. Also the server has 2 NIC's so maybe that is confusing it although all my other servers have 2 NICs and ive never had this problem before.

Red orchestra doesnt need a steam account to download the dedicated server, which is how it should be done.

If I run launcher once I get the error, if I dont click on the error box that pops up and run it again then that seems to allow the server to start, very weird.

Do any of the config files need altering? We have 2 nic's in this server one has a local ip the other an external.

The other thing is im using win 2003 server on this machine, I used XP in the past for the IL2 servers. Im windering if its an OS problem.

Ive got it running in a fashion now. It is the second NIC that seems to be causing the problem.
Would be good to know what is the way around this so I can keep the local NIC going as well.

Cool

We have 4 virtual NICs but they are all external.

Somehow yours is going internal first

Sucess :) Server up & running & I can join from the same box. Other join OK. Thanks all.

So are you binding the game to one specific nic or is it contactable on all of them? Is there a setting in your config files?
Thinking about it why would you want 4 virtual nics anyhow :)

What is the spec of your virtual machine? We are running our 64 player IL2 server on its own hardware I wasnt confident a VM would be up to it.