Setting Up Server issue

[mehGeneralMitch]

I bet you guys get all of these posts about servers and, well to be honest, heres another one.

Sorry If I cause you any inconvenience.

I set up my server, and I turned my fire wall off and set up the server and added my self to the admin list. So I joined my server locally, I launched the console, launched game joined server registered, and logged in.

Now my problems

1.) I dont know if my ports are forwarded or not. How can I check?

2.) The admin panel, when I type /start admin or just start admin it says ACL: denied? How do I fix this?

Thanks for your time, I appreciate it

[Xeno]

1) I THINK you can type "openports" in CONSOLE, and some stuff shows up..

2) Go to

MTA San Andreas 1.2\server\mods\deathmatch\acl.xml 

and find the admin section:

    <group name="Admin"> 
        <acl name="Moderator"></acl> 
        <acl name="SuperModerator"></acl> 
        <acl name="Admin"></acl> 
        <acl name="RPC"></acl> 
        <object name="resource.admin"></object> 
        <object name="resource.webadmin"></object> 
        <object name="user.tomdrum11"></object> 
    </group> 

As you can see, I put in the middle of the admin section, do the same but with your username, like this

<object name="user.[usernamehere]"></object> 

OR if that does not work, type in "start admin" on console.

Hope I helped.

[mehGeneralMitch]

Both of those help I really appreciate it

[mehGeneralMitch]

I forwarded my ports... but now Im unsure if people can join still.... the server says ports are open but idk if people can join with out me giving them my IP

[Xeno]

Type "ase" into the console I think if it says Master server list queries:1 it means people can see it... But I'm not sure.

Have you tried browsing for the server yourself to see if you can find it?

[mehGeneralMitch]

Type "ase" into the console I think if it says Master server list queries:1 it means people can see it... But I'm not sure.

Have you tried browsing for the server yourself to see if you can find it?

Ok now apparently when people try to join there getting "Connection Timed out" why?

[Xeno]

Did you try and restart the server?