Can I?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 6:29 am

Can i host a private server with windows XP? if so what progs will i needs?

Ryo · Post by **Ryo** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 9:59 am

Sure you can.

Go to Sourceforge project page http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire
The files you want will be crossfire-server-windows http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=194090

Grab the server itself, and one map set.

Install using installers, check readme file for information, run the server

Note that maps & artifacts & such won't be the latest CVS, the archives are from november iirc, and stuff may have been updated.
Readme file contains information on how to update maps (ie obtain'em from CVS), you can checkout archetypes/artifacts from cvs too, and update your server.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:21 am

-kk thanks and being akinda a noob at this, what kinda administrative things can i do?

Ryo (from work) · Post by **Ryo (from work)** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 9:45 am

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'administrative things'.

The first thing, after installing, is probably to configure your server so that you have at least one character with Dungeon Master rights.
You'll want to change 'share/dm' (wondering if that's the right name??) file, to add your char, probably with a password & a restricting IPs.
Then connect with your client, use the 'dm' command to switch to dungeon master. If you do 'help commands' you'll see new commands, for DM (aka wizard) only. Feel free to play with them, experiment to see what they do (some have a help text, try help <command>).

Other things you can do is make custom maps (grab the Java editor [or another], and play with maps in share/maps), custom items (change share/archetypes or share/artifacts), stuff like that...

Just make sure to keep backups of stuff, so that if you ever break things you can restore easily

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:24 pm

For additional DM (aka Wizard) related commands and other hints, visit:

http://crossfire.real-time.com/commands/dm/index.html

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 7:39 am

ummm ok i added a test account to the list of dm_file but i try doing "dm" and it says "sorry pal, i dontthink so"

Ryo · Post by **Ryo** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 8:20 am

Anonymous wrote:ummm ok i added a test account to the list of dm_file but i try doing "dm" and it says "sorry pal, i dontthink so"

This error may mean 2 things:
* your character name doesn't appear in dm_file
* your password is wrong

Obviously, you need to login to the server with a character name matching your line in dm_file

Syntax is pretty easy, should be something like:
<char name>:<password>:<authorized ip>

If you plan to just test at first, i'll suggest a line like:
<char name>:*:*

Your char <char name> will be able to become DM without any password.

Also, just in case: the file you want to modify is in share, NOT the one in lib.
And you don't need to restart server if you change the dm_file, it's checked at each 'dm' invocation.