Server Help

[Col. Kitty Hawk]

Trying to setup my own server and Directory Listings for a campus LAN of Subspace. Obviously, I'm new to this stuff, and until I read over the LAN instructions in this forum, I had a really difficult time (my ports were not the same).

My question is, if I have subbill.exe and subgame2.exe/nb running, what am I missing that would not keep a player database on? Isn't subbill the player database? ...and, everyone seems to be using Catid's subbill server, is that becoming the defacto standard now?

[ExplodyThingy]

Yes, the biller is exactly what you need. Make sure the biller and subgame connect, thats the only thing I can see b0rking it. Catids biler is in frequent use, but not necessarily the standard.
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[Col. Kitty Hawk]

Inquisitive Idiot responding (well, it's not a stupid question, right? )

How am I to tell whether or not the billing server is connected to subgame.exe? It slows down considerably in the millisecond counts when subgame is executed, but I would assume maybe I should be looking for something like the letter A: after the letter Q: 0 ####?

(Like a question and answer session?)

I will use the inichecker tool shortly, but I don't initially see anything wrong with my ini files.

Thanks for the quick response and help, ET.

[CypherJF]

It will tell you the biller has connected or not, if you look at subgame2; it will say "attempting to connect to biller..." x4 then say "Server running without database" or something along those lines; if that is the case, it didn't connect to the biller.

If it did connect to the biller, it wouldn't say the player database is offline.
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[Col. Kitty Hawk]

I think I accidentally figured it out.

I opened up subgame.exe through Windows' Explorer rather than through the command prompt and therefore didn't use any flags (ie: /nb), I have a feeling that nb stands for no-billing. If you use the nb flags, the server stops prior to displaying the following lines:

Sun Feb 15 19:47:28: Attempting to establish link to billing server...
Sun Feb 15 19:47:29: Billing server connected.


Obviously the timestamp is irrevalent, but the flags however are not.
...now, the only thing I have to figure out from this step is why the users are not actually being logged into user.dat files... Should I make a new thread topic for this? I can never seem to find anything when I search the forums.

[ExplodyThingy]

Theres a NB flag??

Just do c:\path\to\game>subgame2, and it should run normal. Dont to /nb...

[Col. Kitty Hawk]

Yeah, as I said I figured that one out already. Thank you both for your help though, I really appreciate it! I also figured out the problem with my *.dat files not getting updated and saved by searching the forum.

Thanks again!

[CypherJF]

I didnt know there was a /nb command lol.....

[Col. Kitty Hawk]

Apparently no one reads the full tutorial on Shanky's Server for Subspace OS.