Disappearing channels and crashing server

[woutur]

Can anyone help this guy out?

My system:
WIN XP Home Edition
AMD Athalon 1900+
512k
SB Live

Help,

I just downloaded your latest version of TS2. I have had it running for 3
days and have 2 quick Q's. Let me 1st say that I read through the FAQ's and
they all talk about the problem I am having but being a bit of a NEWB I
can't find where they post the solutions.

My Q's are....
1.) My Server crashes as does TS Client when I exit back to the the Welcome
screen. I have several users that have their own login accounts on XP. How
do I stop the Server and Client progs from crashing? I run the server for a
clan and did not have these problems with TS 1. As such it needs to be
running 24-7.

2.) When I exit and close the server and then restart it many of the
channels if not most or all disappear. Is there a way to save the channels
like TS 1? Or is this a different problem? It is alot of work to reenter all
the clan rooms each time you reboot your system or the server crashes...


Thanks for your help
Sincerely,

D.J. Mitchell

[guldi]

1) sorry, can't help you.

2) when you create a channel, there is a Option (Flag) "Registered". Set this flag an the channel will be "saved".
Even if your a "beginner", you could have done a search in this forum and you would have found this answer many times. Just a hint for next time

[Doritos&Vodka]

For NT 4.0 , Windows 2000 & Windows XP...

You will want to use a 3rd party wrapper to have the program/server run as a Service. This way, you do not even have to login to the machine for the TS Server to start and run. And make sure you do not have any user profiles that try to run it at StartUp/Login...

A very good Service Wrapper to do this with is FireDaemon (http://www.firedaemon.com). Very easy to setup and use. Just for safety sake make sure you set the Start Up In Folder to the Truncated Location for the TS2 Server install (ie. c:\Progra~1\TeamSpeak2).

Now, the TS Client is supposed to close when you Logoff (go back to the Welcome Screen). No way around that. That part is working how it should.

As for Channels not saving.
1st, make sure the Channels have the Registered Check on them (that enters them into the DB to be saved and setup when the Server starts up.
2nd, make sure you do a Clean Shutdown of the TS Server for the Channels to save. Have found that if you forcefully Kill the TS2 Server Process, sometimes the database updates do NOT save correctly.
3rd, test to see if maybe the DB file is corrupt. Rename the server.db file to something while Server is not running then start it up and set channels. Now Shutdown the TS Server and restart it. If the channels did create upon startup. Most likely, your original server.db file has some curroption in it. Have seen this happen a lot lately. Especially if the DB gets too large with Channels and User Account info.

[PureGrain]

Originally posted by Doritos&Vodka
For NT 4.0 , Windows 2000 & Windows XP...

3rd, test to see if maybe the DB file is corrupt. Rename the server.db file to something while Server is not running then start it up and set channels. Now Shutdown the TS Server and restart it. If the channels did create upon startup. Most likely, your original server.db file has some curroption in it. Have seen this happen a lot lately. Especially if the DB gets too large with Channels and User Account info.

OKl, since I seen this post I wanted to ask. This Server.db file corruption you talk of. I am having this trouble with Linux based servers as well. And some of these server.db files are massive in size. Do you think this is a bug? Or is it not able to handle that much data per application?

I mean, I can run two applications or more on any machine, but my question is? Do you think that the size of the server.db file will cause an application to corrupt a db file? Hence I have to many channels opened on one server application...So splitting them up would allow the software to run on a smaller db file? Making it respond faster and more reliable? I don't know. I have been running about 30 - 50 servers from 3 seperate machines. But only using one application for each server, with the config files in one. Running about 12 - 14 in each server.db. I found that after shutting down TS2 manually, and rebooting the server. The server.db file gets corrupted and won't let the server restart TS2 without deleting the db file. :mad:

Anyways, I was just asking in case someone knew why this was happening in Windows and linux?:confused: