Gnu_UKC-X

Hi guys I wonder if you can do the necessary change to my account or the clan account, so that bans show up as a UKC-X cheat capture rather than a Gnu_UKC-X capture. Sorry for the hassle http://www.pbbans.com/mbi.php?action=5&ban_id=51193

I guess Crazy is alluding to the same thing, he wants to check that you are streaming. If you are streaming, then PBBans have the log. I don't think that it matters who actually recorded the demo,as long as it was on your server.

I am afraid that to you can't submit a demo to PBBans unless you join here a streaming game admin. You must stream your server to PBBans, which means your server's log file(s) are sent to PBBans. This ensures that PBBans gets a log file that they can be sure is untampered, then with the log file and your demo, they can ban the player. Even is you were to set up streaming now, they will not be able to ban this player as they do not have the original logs. You can only ban this player locally. My advice is to get your server streaming to PBBan as soon as you can Cheers

Hi Thanks for the info. It got to the point where they would show in the console, but not as a large coloured message, so I have now switched greetings off. The added bonus of having them off I suppose, is that admins aren't being announced when joining, so can often jump into spectate mode unnoticed

Wow! ............ he got my car too !! ....... but my gun was in the boot (trunk) .... ;)

I wish that was true :D

I guess it must be a punkbuster issue ....... I wonder what the 0 (zero) after the word 'say' means?

Is there anyone else having hub greetings problems in COD 4? The messages are being streamed to our servers, but don't show up in game anymore. It's been that way for the past couple of days or so. I get this from our server logs :- Any ideas? Thanks

Hi The correct rcon command format for COD4 is :- /rcon then your command Some commands will not work unless the rcon is open fullscreen, to open fullscreen you press the SHIFT-Console Key (tilde) For instance to get a list of the all the players in the server with their slot numbers and GUID's :- SHIFT-Tilde /rcon status What I have never liked about in game rcon is that if you make a mistake with the command, it is transmitted on screen for everyone one to see, really bad if it is a password you are trying to enter. You should try the setup we use for our admins, that is that we put the RCON password in our game shortcuts (on our desktops) to automatically log us into our rcon when joining the server. So the target box in our shortcut is like this for all our servers, except the port changes :- "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\iw3mp.exe" +rcon login ourpassword +connect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:28960 So then you just bring up your console an issue commands. As for banning via the console, they really cocked that up, when you ban via the rcon it creates a ban.txt file in the 'main' folder, BUT TO READ IT, it MUST be in the 'players' folder ..... doh! So you have to copy and paste it. I know nothing about having to have a punkbuster for every server instance, because I opted to have 3 servers running from 3 folders, so that's 3 copies of COD4 like this :- C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare 1/ C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare 2/ C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare 3/ So each of these DO HAVE their own punkbuster. Also missing out the video folder will save about 1.25 GB per install. At the moment, apart from streaming to PBBans, using the CVAR & MD5 checking, highly recommended, I like to use Punkbuster itself to do the kicking and banning, whether it's temporary or permanent. So I use their Webtool. If you look in the pb folder, you should see a pbsv.cfg file, this is punkbuster's config file. If you don't have this file, use the rcon to issue a pv_sv_write.cfg command, this will create one for you. If you open this file with a text editor, look for these lines :- pb_sv_HttpPort (pick an unused port) //[Port #] pb_sv_HttpAddr "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" //[External IP Address] pb_sv_HttpKey "yourpassword" //[Password] pb_sv_HttpRefresh 30 //[seconds] pb_sv_HttpMaps "" //[Map list (separate by spaces)] pb_sv_HttpMapsPath "" //[Path where maps are loaded from in WebTool] pb_sv_HttpColText1 "FFFFFF" //[Text Color #1 in WebTool (default=FFFFFF)] pb_sv_HttpColText2 "FFF000" //[Text Color #2 in WebTool (default=0000FF)] pb_sv_HttpColBack1 "000000" // pb_sv_HttpColBack2 "808080" // pb_sv_HttpColLine1 "FF0000" //[Line Color #1 in WebTool (default=FF0000)] pb_sv_HttpColLine2 "0000FF" //[Line Color #2 in WebTool (default=0000FF)] pb_sv_HttpColMsg "FF0000" //[Message Color in WebTool (default=FF0000)] pb_sv_HttpShowGuid 1 //[0=No, 1=Yes (default=0)] Edit it by inserting an unused port for example 9000, the IP of your server, and input a password of your choosing (punkbuster will call this a 'webkey'. Now go to your browser and type this :- http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000 This is your server's IP and the port you selected in the config. This doesn't work well for me with Firefox (I keep losing the webkey), but works well in IE7. A Punkbuster webtool for COD4 will open, and you enter the password (webkey) you put in the config file. Click one of the buttons (or double click) and you are in. Within a short time (30 seconds or so) the webkey you put in will change into a great big long kind of hash key. Once the address bar in your browser shows this long webkey as part of the address, you can now save the page as a favourite, so you can come back any time to admin your server. As you waited for the webkey to change in the address bar (b4 making it a favourite), you will not need to enter the webkey again. For mutiple servers on the same IP, but in different folders (like mine), I just change the port number in that server's config eg. 9001, then do the same again (same password if you want), and save that as a favourite. Now when I start Internet Explorer, it opens (homepage) with 3 tabs and 3 servers. This is good for me because I hate Internet Explorer and use Firefox ...... so finally I have a use for IE7 .... :D I might move this to my laptop, so I don't need to tab out of COD4 to do any kicking etc. Hope this helps Gnu_UKC-X EDIT: As a side note - Be careful when kicking/banning if you are mixing rcon with punkbuster. The player slot numbers start at 0 (zero) in game, but punkbuster starts at 1. So if you had one admin on the in game rcon telling you to kick slot 5, and you are on the punkbuster tool, you need to kick slot 6 - So confirm the names first ...... lol