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Well this is interesting... I didn't even bother checking DownloadAccess.txt because all of the machines are clones, and have the same DownloadAccess.txt. So, logically, either all of them should have worked or none of them should have worked. But when I checked the file, I found... allow *images.bz...

The only other way is to have the images in the default install.

Default install on the clients? I can image my lab, so that may be another way to limit this issue.

Dan

httpTimeout in the client config to give them more time to get the images from your impacted server

Thanks Jeff, that's a great idea and something I will give a try.

We are having issues loading materials on various maps. We run the BZFS server on a local LAN, and authenticate locally. When I have a bunch of people log in at the same time, some of them get custom materials/images, and some don't. Those that don't basically have a "white world" with no ...

Just so we're clear, I'm talking about this file (below) which used to get populated by the private phpbb3 server as users joined. Also, even if the user existed in the file, I was getting "this user is already registered" login errors. # userdb stores user to group mappings. #Spacing is V...

The way it worked for me with 2.0.16 was this. I set up my own private list server using phpbb3 (based on instructions I wrote here: http://wiki.bzflag.org/Private_List_Server). When people would create an account with phpbb3, they would also end up in users.txt locally on the server. So somehow bzf...

Thanks for the help guys. I just couldn't get it to work. Something has changed somewhere, and I don't have the time to fix it. The private server deals with tokens fine, and everything seems OK when I do the testing, but new users from the private phpbb board don't show up in users.txt. Also, users...

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my PRIVATE list server to work with the newer BZFS 2.4.x. I know one of the changes for new servers is the -publickey setting if the server wishes to be listed on the PUBLIC BZFlag server list. My Questions: (1) Do I need to use -publickey if I am using my own PRIVATE Li...

I have created a very simple Stats Processor for BZFlag. Basically, it takes a log file created by BZAdmin, parses it, and converts it into a table based HTML page. XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant. It shows team score by color, individual score, and individual "player vs. player" results....

Just to close this all up from my end. I have my Private List Server running now. Today, I had 20 kids come in and try it out, and it worked like a champ. So thanks to everyone that helped out, especially Blast . My experiences setting this up are detailed in the following BZFlagWiki article: http:/...

hmm, when i try and do my own Private server list the get tokens and the check tokens .etc work fine but when i do list servers it comes up blank, i changed my server setting, made sure there was no -q changed -publiclist to -publiclist http://maxhostpro.com/bb/bzfls.php, ive had a look at everythi...

>>The "userdb" isn't necessary unless you are using local groups.

Makes sense. I'll remove -userdb from the wiki article then. I put it in because phpbb users were showing up in the userdb file locally. I assumed as a sort of local caching of users.

OK, my first ever BZFlag Wiki article:
http://my.bzflag.org/w/Private_List_Server
Constructive criticism and corrections welcome

I hope it helps somebody...

Dan

Ok, I think I FINALLY have everything working. The only other thing I forgot about, and had to tweak, was in the config file to enable the Groups and Users files. I enabled the Passwords file also, but that isn't being used... which makes sense since the TOKEN is what the client needs, and the passw...

Guess I forgot to mention about this: http://bzflag.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bzflag/trunk/db/support/database_structure.sql?revision=20248&content-type=text/plain Uh.... yea :-) Thanks, that makes a lot more sense... I kept thinking there had to be at least one more MySQL table I was missing....

I think the token system is working, but I don't think clients are using the token to AUTH. The clients have a long pause... and then they just get dumped into the game... nothing on screen about password being correct, etc. I still think it may have something to do with a missing table in the datab...

Update...

got bzfls.php to return a valid token, and did a checktoken and that worked. Also, the token ends up in the MySQL database for the user.

Still not sure that the CLIENT is getting/using the token, and the bzfls.php log (bzfls.log) is still blank.

There should be a log file for bzfls.php defined somewhere in there. You may have to enable it. Not sure how to "enable" the log file other than uncomment it. I already checked the PHP code and put the log file where it was suggested. So far the log file is blank. Also, you can access the...

OK, getting back to the ORIGINAL discussion: Here's what I did on Ubuntu: (1) Installed PHPBB3 and got it working via Synaptic Package Manager. (2) Downloaded and put into the PHPBB3 folder (/usr/share/phpbb3/www/) the following files: bzfls.php serversettings.php banfunctions.php (3) Entered values...

blast wrote: In any case, you could run a copy of the list server if you so choose. The source code for the list server is in our SVN repository under trunk/db/...

Thanks. This makes a lot of sense and really helps!

Hello, I have a private server set up, and it is working well. We play at lunch at school and have between 15 and 25 kids show up to play BZ Flag once a week. The issue I am having is, I'd like to be able to use the CALLSIGN and PASSWORD input for login **WITHOUT** using the global server. We are pl...

The list server is rarely down, please don't characterize it as having a history of being down When I've needed it in the past, the server was down. I would characterize contacting a BB to authenticate for a private LAN game as less than optimal. Also, I do not understand how connecting to the list...

It's just an MD5, so it's not encryption. It's a hash. It's a "One Way Cryptographic Hash Function" or "One Way Message Digest" if you want to get really technical about it. Either way, it is encryption. Also, local authentication is very insecure. It has been completely removed...

In the off chance that this helps someone in the future. Here's what my current command line to run BZFS looks like on Ubuntu: /usr/games/bzfs -conf /home/[user]/bzflag/bzconfig.txt Bzfs was installed via Synaptic (or command line) into /user/games . I put my configs into a folder I created in my ho...

Doesn't matter where bzfs is at as long as you can execute it. It only matters where you are pointing other files (pass/group/user files). Yea, good point about that! Even though an uninstall of BZFS was not necessary, I did it anyway to start as "fresh" as possible. Moved the config file...