Gremlin

Thank each and every one of you for your prompt and concise replies, I shall now, duplicate the cod4 dir and reconfigure to run 5 seperate instances of the code. As for streaming these to PBbans, sounds like a great idea, is there a tutorial for this? I have set up servers for many games Landwarrior, DF DF2 BHD teamsabre Joint ops.. but this is the first time I have run servers that are configured like COD4 is. I shall return once I have re-configured as suggested.. Thank you again..

I have a few small issues I would like to ask help on.. On our Dedicated Server box we run 5 instances of COD4, all ranked all run in the C:\COD4 directory.. I have no problems with any of the servers firing up and running, I have had no problems tweaking each server config file, these are labled srv1.cfg srv2.cfg and so on.. what I am having problems with is :- the Rcon utility released by codhq will log into any of the servers, however if I try and get rcon access while playing I cannot connect.. I have tried reading 3 COD4 Forums and found no hint to why this is.. after hitting the ~ while playing I enter the following syntax rcon login xxxxx rcon_password xxxxx login xxxxx I have also tried all 3 with a slash in front, none of these will get me into the system to remove a troublemaker, so untill now I log out of my game, remote to the server box and kick troublemaker from there. As you can see this isnt the best way to do things.. so what am I doing wrong here.. and once logged in, how do I know I am actually in?? This brings me to my second question. I banned a foul mouthed abusive player a day or so ago, he is listed in the ban.txt in the main dir, but can log straight back in. the console gives me a message that the ban.txt is in the wrong directory or something simular.. Now, from what I have read on PB each of my servers needs to run a seperate PB per server instance..and I need to add something to the start script to do this.. I have no idea how at this point in time.. Ideally I would like all 5 servers to use the same ban list if possible, ergo if we have a idiot on one server they loose access to all cod servers we host.. Would someone please be so kind as to help with these 2 issues please.. Thank you in advance..