FrenchTart

Thanks for the link - I'll check out the mod now. We don't really have any problems with admin or organisation at the moment. I'm just looking to streamline everything if I can. Having a web interface for all the game servers built into our intranet at the lan would be quite neat - if also a little ott ;)

Yeah - that's what we do right now. Pb is overkill in a small/med lan and it's far easier to just keep an eye on people. The reason I wanted to be able to use it was to give me better/easier rcon control and simplify the creation of web interfaces for most of the games we run. Hence asking whether or not I can have pb on the server without requiring the clients to be running it ;) In terms of telling people to get it sorted themselves....That might work for larger lans but we can't afford to annoy our attendees too much or we'll rapidly lose people.

Thanks for the help and definitive responses :) Yeah. No doubt it's a pb conf error on my part. I guess I should really extend my knowledge... bah :P Thanks for the tips - I'll consider whether or not the hassle of getting pb running on all our servers weighs well enough against the hassle of not having web cpanels and see how it goes. Cheers :)

It's an odd/crazy question, I know but I'll explain my reasons :) I run a 50ish person lan party event and one of the less serious tourneys we host is FEAR:Combat. Last event we had to disable pb on our server as it was causing some players (and organisers) problems. I know for a fact that those players weren't cheating/whatever but sadly pb didn't want to play ball. Recently I've been thinking of building a web interface to make admining all our servers a bit easier and more centralized (we have about 10-15 running 24/7 at our events) and the punkbuster web control panel seems a very simple and easy way of doing this. However, I don't want to go through the hassle of having to deal with half our attendees coming to me with technical difficulties due to pb not liking them. So...any ideas? Sorry if this has already been asked before or if it's inherently stupid. I've admin'd a lot of servers but not really used pb that much on any of them...