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I am presuming you have a server :P - first thing to do is to set up streaming to help protect your server. You may have noticed the info on the front page of the site. Unfortunately the links I have given below will not be working just yet but they will be as soon as the business end of PBBans is in full swing. Won't be long now. :) There are however a lot of pinned topics to read that should help you on your way in our download section. There are some .pdf files that should help to explain things for you. Once the PBBans Hub is back and fully functional follow the links below which will help you set up streaming your server. After that it is a matter of maintaining the server regularly. By that I mean keeping the cvar and MD5 configs up to date, checking the screenshots regularly for suspicious shots, keeping an eye on the forums here and learning about how other admins keep their server's in great shape. And always feel free to ask questions. Someone here is bound to be able to help you. Downloads and Tutorials. Links for when Hub is up and running. Account Management | Streaming & Banlist & Cvars / MD5's | PBBans Hub Flags | Master Player Index Our front page will also have some useful links and information when we are fully functional again. :) Welcome to PBBans :) siskin @(*0*)@

Yep, new servers will be added when we are back up to full speed as well :) .. It may take a little while to process everyone initially, but we have a great team here willing to put in the hard yards and I am sure it wont be too long ;)

Resignation letter. Mr Baker, As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of myself and my co-workers during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time. Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know about Unix, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time. You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will. You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however I have a few parting thoughts. 1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own. 2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favourites list", which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favourably by the administration. 3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mothers b-day", you neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please, I hate having to correct your mistakes.) Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never f-- k with your systems administrators, because they know what you do with all your free time. Sincerely, Ted Brewer @(*0*)@

'twas all foxdie :bigsmile3: I just felt like passing on the news ;)

Should be taken care of now Viz... Just allow some time for the logs to be forwarded and parsed and things should be back to normal pretty soon :)

hey lovechiefs :D welcome back and good to see you again after your hiatus. Was just visiting your blog site the other day and listening to a couple of pieces.. Nice work :D and good luck with the new university. siskin @(*0*)@

PB updated Americas Army serverside the day before yesterday and the problem seems to be happening for about half the playing population atm :( No guids which sometimes are resolved by reconnecting but most often not. The other thing is that in game monitors such as server spy the guid of players are not showing up but their IP's are :blink: So perhaps a similar serverside pb update has caused the same problems with your game? Sorry I have nothing more for you :(

The pbsvss.htm file is the file which allows to be hosted the shots so to speak. Usually your provider will have set up the system to allow you to view your screenshots via a web page. Sometimes the link looks like this http:// ip/ ip/svss/pbsvss.htm (not always but this is the most common setup.) This is a link to my servers shots so you can see what the pbsvss.htm looks like in action AAO public screenshots Perhaps check with your host to see if this facility is set up for you and if so just double check on the address used. As Woolf says, sometimes the .png's just dont get transferred or are corrupted or timed out - the fact that you get a .htm file though makes me believe that your request for a shot went through fine. Is there a reason you are not using auto ss? Not that it matters, it is just that I find it the simplest way to deal with screenshots - leaves me time to play ;)

No, it should happen straight away - try again but if you cant for some reason pm me or post the same details as required in the application and I will sort it for you @(*0*)@

Hi ATFDragon and welcome to PBBans. To make an application to stream via the Hub please follow this link Streaming Account Application This will automatically add a thread in this forum New Account Submissions Once your Team Account has been created and the server is streaming your forum account will be upgraded to Streaming Game Admin (SGA) status and you will be able to access you account manager plus the private SGA forums. You can submit your suspect screenshots for review by the Ban Managers via your account manager as well. To gain access to your servers screenshots please contact your host for details - however most people find them in their /system/pb/svss folder of their server files. Some links you may find helpful :) Streaming Guide for AAO Account Management PBBans Hub Flags Not Streaming Fix Good luck and we hope to see you as SGA soon :D Cheers siskin @(*0*)@

Hi Quill. We here at PBBans are not involved in the name registry at Evenbalance. Please follow this link http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=registry.php where you will find all the information regarding tag/name protection. In my own personal experience though; I am afraid that if your ex-member has paid the registration fees to have the tag protected then afaik there is not a lot you can do. There is a link on that page for support though. Good luck @(*0*)@

Server Status Server is streaming via Hub Server Info Clan Tag [SE] Server IP 66.55.149.148:27960 Data Last Received 10 mins ago You obviously found it :) Just for future reference, servers can be added or deleted via your account manager here You can also add new users, view your server bans, submit screenshots there and manage your flag choices, i.e whether to Accept Hub Bans and Allow Greetings etc. You can even arrange a PBBans specific signature image there too :P Enjoy. Cheers @(*0*)@

Email addy has been changed :) There is no Head Admin function as such but you have 3 admins on your team C6 ahh72_DEU (109941) C6_Chus (108966) CharlieTF (108984) The server is streaming and all logs are being forwarded to both ACI and AON. You may need to contact Reaper or Fragnader at ACI to determine why they have not parsed them. Cheers :) @(*0*)@

Hi C6 ahh72_DEU You can add members to your team and manage the team information by using your Account Manager, here. If you scroll down to the bottom you will see where you can add users etc :D Cheers @(*0*)@

Welcome to PBBans sm0ke :) As PBBans continues to grow and evolve we have implemented a new way to add streaming servers to our system. Please apply here to add your streaming server Account Application These links may be of help to you as well. Hub Guide Not Streaming Fix Hub Flags TOS I am sure we will see your server streaming shortly :D @(*0*)@

Hi Sig :) At this stage the server has not been added to the PBBans system, Have you made a request here for the server to be added? Just make an application here http://www.pbbans.com/account_application.php and we will have you added very shortly. A couple of things; You will need to increase your pb_sv_usessionlimit to 4 or 5 as AON's LiveBan Beta uses 2 pbucon sessions as well. Also, Have a read of this topic http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29047 for a quick fix guide, it may come in handy. Of course if you still have trouble just post and a staff member will be only too willing to help. Good luck and welcome to PBBans :D

Thanks for the info and thank you for not making it public :). You are more than welcome to pm an admin here at the site and give them the details of your find and they will take the appropriate action. And I can assure you, we feel the same way as you do about these cheaters :angry: Bear in mind though that if you have a server and stream it to the PBBans Hub you are going a long way towards protecting yourself and the playing community from these tossers. Also, as a streaming game admin you will have access to our Cvar and MD5 checks and a wealth of experience in keeping our servers as safe as we can from the likes of the members at that site. So feel free to follow any of these links for more info or to contact any of the staff here for anything that you need :D PBBans Hub Explained How to Setup Streaming via the PBBans Hub The PBBans Hub FAQ Forum Cheers

There were 6 guids on the MBi from the game Americas Army with this violation. All 6 have been removed. If you believe your guid was not removed then please pm an admin with your details and the issue will be investigated and resolved. If your #50100 guid kick/ban relates to the game Battlefield 2, please submit a trouble ticket >> by clicking here and ask if the violation is valid. If EvenBalance inform us that the violation is a false positive the guid will be removed from the ban index. Thank you.

PBBans just doing their job CC :) As you can see, on the advice of EvenBalance all violations of this nature for AA have been lifted. http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=34707 Cheers and cya on the battlefield. :D sis

LOL.. I loved the fourth one :lol:

You do not need to do anything :) Keep your flags edited as they are with Accept HUB Bans checked and all will be fine. The cvar's and md5 lists are either manually updated or used with the jPAT tool by PBBans; so your ACI or AON scripts are safe. Are you still primary streaming to AON or have you changed your primary stream to ACI? If there have been any changes just uncheck the group you primarily stream to now and check the other other group to have all logs forwarded .

PBBans needs to be able to verify the submitted screenshots to be able to review them for a ban. If a server is not streaming then there is no way for PBBans to be able to verify the submitted shots with the server logs. That being said. You may post a screenshot for public review for opinions so that you may get advice on whether to add a GUID to your own personal server banlist.

Thanks Evil D :) To set up log forwarding is easy too and you can do it from your account manager. here is a link that may help click me Once you edit the flags info then your logs will be forwarded to those groups you have chosen. And dont forget to submit those screenshots through the account manager too :D

wow.. I am not familiar with bf2 at all so I am sorry that didnt work for you as I thought it would. After posting this though I did go back to where I found it the batch file originally and they have updated .. so maybe this version will be better for BF2. ---------------------------------------------------------------- First off set the services to manual, then open notepad and create a file called pbconfig.bat The contents of the file should be :- sc config PnkBstrA binpath= "c:\windows\system32\PnkBstrA.exe" start= "demand" sc config PnkBstrB binpath= "c:\windows\system32\PnkBstrB.exe" start= "demand" Run this once. Then replace ALL of the original text in the aforementioned aao.cmd file with the following :- start /wait "" "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" taskkill /im PnkBstrA.exe /f taskkill /im PnkBstrB.exe /f Save this to your root directory and follow the instructions from above about putting a shortcut to your desktop. Hopefully that should work for you :) This takes you to that very long intro that BF2 has.. I am aware that some people have created shortcuts to circumvent the long intro , so maybe the path needs to be adjusted to accommodate that but I am not sure. Good luck kudos to Yapple2 and [OF]Grumpy for the creating the batch files originally btw :)

I found a small batch file that I use that sits on my desktop that starts the services up prior to me starting the game and turns them off once I am finished playing. It should work for windows xp and above and should be adaptable to any game. rem set punkbuster services to auto sc config PnkBstrA binpath= "c:\windows\system32\PnkBstrA.exe" start= "auto" sc config PnkBstrB binpath= "c:\windows\system32\PnkBstrB.exe" start= "auto" rem start the punkbuster services sc start PnkBstrA sc start PnkBstrB rem start America's Army start /wait "" "C:\Program Files\America's Army\System\ArmyOps.exe" rem after AA closes stop punkbuster services sc stop PnkBstrA sc stop PnkBstrB rem reset status of punkbuster services to disabled sc config PnkBstrA binpath= "c:\windows\system32\PnkBstrA.exe" start= "disabled" sc config PnkBstrB binpath= "c:\windows\system32\PnkBstrB.exe" start= "disabled" I put the batch file ( mine is named aao.cmd ) in my root folder and have a shortcut on my desktop.. I changed the icon of the desktop shortcut to suit my game icon and have never had any issues and the services only run when my game runs :D