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is there a way to put use a -password parameter in the in-game server starter?

at school we are doing a charity bzflag tournament on the local network, but the school technitians don't want to give us access to the command line (because they are paranoid abiut us doing terrible things to thier system). and i know you can't set the -password through the map file....

i don't suppose thers a default password?
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Yeah, first do: /setpass <password here>
Then do /password <whatever you put as your password>
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you could make a batch file and imput it there i could make you one if you want..?
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the /setpass dosn't work. it tells me that "/setpass is disabled".

it's annoying. i think we might not be able to use batch files. but let's give it a go.
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@echo off

set BZFSPROGRAM="C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.5b2\bzfs.exe"

set PASSWORD="PASSWORD HERE"

REM ***** Don't change anything below this line! *****

@echo on

%BZFSPROGRAM% -password %PASSWORD%

pause
just fill in the bit that says password here and the path to BZFlag and it should work then copy the edited text to a file and call it server.bat or some thing then double click it and then it run also all this is asuming that your using windows...
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umm... make a map.conf and put -world "path/to/world.bzw and then put -password password.here in it too. and when starting the server put -conf "path/to/map.conf"

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Post by Winny »

wow a charity bzflag tourament I wish our school did that

bring in a external pc and run teh server off that
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Post by Spazzy McGee »

yeah i was goint to run the server off my laptop, but they wouldn't let us.

i used te batch file, and it worked fine. thanks TNWSNi. :)
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very kool,how did u get to do that spazzy?,and whats the server once u put it up ?
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its on a LAN, so its not accessible from outside.(am i right?)
security reasons, as his school is settin g up the tournament.
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yeah. we diddn't want to run it public anyway....

we have now run into another problem --- our system admin is getting touchy with us using the batch file, so we have to run the server without a password, but all the maps that i put into the 'worlds' folder won't work.

i start the server (using the in-game server starter) with any custom map it says 'server started' and when you try to connect it fails. it only works with random map.... aaaaaahhhh.

we want to run HiX.
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Post by Winny »

do you want me or someone else to run the server? so you can connect to it just have it remote ?

that would solve alot of problems
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Post by Spazzy McGee »

no. they want it on the lan.
1, they are paranoid
2, lag - it would be crossing the atlantic
3, they blocked the port for bzflag

i want to know why my maps arn't wrking properly.
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Post by Winny »

you are doing the start server things right?


that for some reason will only allow you to run teh random map you can't run a specifided one



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Win Xp wrote:you are doing the start server things right?


that for some reason will only allow you to run teh random map you can't run a specifided one
yeah. on mac it always worked... i was so confused. ahhh well. i suppose were stuck with random map.

Win Xp wrote:my god and tell the technicians to take a pill
hehe. you have no idea.....
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Spazzy Mcgee wrote:
Win Xp wrote:you are doing the start server things right?


that for some reason will only allow you to run teh random map you can't run a specifided one
yeah. on mac it always worked... i was so confused. ahhh well. i suppose were stuck with random map.

Win Xp wrote:my god and tell the technicians to take a pill
hehe. you have no idea.....


what about the you have no idea thing

you also siad bzflag port ( can you run teh server on a different port )
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does any one know what happens if you run it on port 80
That would really mess things up...
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why would it mess it up ?

it is a port is it not ? I know a server that ran/runs on ort 80
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port 80 is what the web (as in browser, HTML pages ect) runs on
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Yes, port 80 is the default for a web server, and port 443 is the default for SSL Http (web) traffic. But those are just the defaults... They can be changed. Other services could be set to run on them with no problems if they are not being used by those services (no web server running on 80 or 443), but it is not recommended. There are plenty of other ports.

Here is a link to the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) webpage that lists the ports and the services that are assigned to them by default:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
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You're under windows, right? (for this server I mean)
Are you using the Start Server shortcuts on the start menu?
Start Menu->Programs (or All Programs on Windows XP)->BZFlag (whatever)->Server->(something in here)?

I could be completely wrong, but I might know what's wrong.
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yes there is a start server hix and start server ffa in there


good thinking I never would of thoght of that
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yeah but windows at school is different. it's like completeley screwed about with by the admins.

we don't have a programs bit in start. we have a menu called 'Subjects' and then 'physics' (or whatever) then the program.... lol

and a bzflag shortcut has been put in the my documents of a communal login account called 'bzflag''
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Well, could you create a shortcut to bzfs with the correct parameters?

just use [drive]:\path\to\bzfs -password passwd -conf "asfasf" -world "asdf"
Like for me:
it would be "C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.4\bzfs.exe" -conf "myconf" -password "secret" -world "myworld.bzw"
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but for that you would need shell acess (terminal) but the techies wont let him have acess
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