Need help setting up my server for scripting.

[Guest]

Hey, everyone. I've searched the forums extensively and have found little to help me. Either the answers I need are buried in a thread that doesn't show up when I search for keywords related to my problem, or I need to devote more than five hours to searching. Please forgive my transgressions. I know how annoying it is to have someone that can't search, but I assure you I did do quite a lot of searching.

I wish to set up a server (or series of servers, anyway) that rotates through various maps every couple days. For now, I want to focus on MTA 0.5 maps - Vice City Deathmatch plus the three GTA3 maps. I can host the server absolutely fine - people can join, the lag's not too bad by MTA standards, and the core of the server is A-OK. However, when I attempt to use MTA:MA, I simply cannot connect.

I'm using Aeron's 4.15 client, and I had version 3 before this. The first time I used MTA:MA, it worked fine. I downloaded the General Scripts and customized the options how I saw fit. I noticed, however, that the scripts in the General Scripts package weren't appearing on my server. So I unplugged it and restarted the server...this time, MTA:MA wouldn't connect. It's been like that for four days now and I've just about had it.

I can connect with the default MTA remote administration tool, but MTA:MA simply won't connect. This is what I see when I start up MTA:MA.

[18:24] * Updater: Checking for updates...

[18:24] * Updater: No updates.

[18:24] * Connecting...

[18:25] * Disconnected: Timed-out.

[18:25] * Connecting...

[18:25] * Disconnected: Timed-out.

[18:29] * Connecting...

[18:29] * Disconnected: Timed-out.

What you see above is are 3 connection attempts. Meanwhile, in the main mIRC window, I see this:

* Loaded script 'C:\Program Files\mIRC\mta.mrc'

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* Invalid parameters: $did (line 2324, mtama.mrc)

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* /mta.close: not connected to server (line 3117, mtama.mrc)

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* Invalid parameters: $did (line 2324, mtama.mrc)

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* /sockudp: invalid parameters (line 1753, mta.mrc)

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* Invalid parameters: $did (line 2324, mtama.mrc)

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* /sockudp: invalid parameters (line 1753, mta.mrc)

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* /sockudp: invalid parameters (line 1753, mta.mrc)

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* /sockudp: invalid parameters (line 1753, mta.mrc)

I don't know much about socks or UDP, but I do know they have to do with my internet connection. Which is strange, because I have no firewall or router. My internet connection is crystal clear, free of obstruction.

Here is what I have set in my MTA:MA connection options:

Name - Server 1

IP - The IP address in my mtaserver.conf file in my MTA directory.

Port - 4003

Client Port - 2003

Password - My admin/admin+ password for the server.

Nick - admin

Everything looks fine to me. But I can't connect anymore. All options in MTA:mA:GRS are disabled to default...I don't have any other scripts installed aside from GRS. I can't see what the problem is. I'm quite certain if I could get this thing to connect, I could easily figure out how to throw in a few pre-made scripts (I have no interest in making my own) and just have a server going for me and my friends.

Sorry for the long post, but I didn't want to leave out any information or logged material. Thank you for your aid, and please go easy on me.

[Hedning]

Erhm what ip are you talkin about? I was looking in the file and found nothing about that.

go to http://www.whatismyip.com use that ip then it should work i think.

[Guest]

Wow, that was simple. It seems my ISP assigns two IPs, one being the real one and one being a "Gateway". How annoying. I plugged in my real IP and it works fine now. Thanks for the suggestions.

[Hedning]

Np