people cant join my server

[espn8]

ok i made a ts server and i registered and can login fine. i know i need to do something with port fowarding and all that i think...ive read all sorts of help guides but i still dont no wht i need to do with wirefall settings changing ports and everything liek that can soemone plz give some detail in wht i need to do that would be great.

[WolfStar76]

I expect this post will be moved to the trash since about every 4th post here is about how to make things work. All the same, here's the same generic checklist I put down each time its asked.

Generic "my friends/users can't connect" checklist:

1) Are they connecting to your WAN address (www.whatismyip.com)
2) Are the ports forwarded from your rotuer to the TeamSpeak Server on your LAN? (www.portforward.com)
3) Have you made an exception for Inbound UDP traffic on port 8767 in your software firewall(s)? This includes the Windows Firewall which is ON by default in Windows XP SP2
4) Is the server running? (test by connecting to it yourself)

[espn8]

ok i have done what everybody has said bu ti decided to look at ts's way to fix it it sounds a whole lot easier but i dnt now where i can find this file, the server.ini file...to do the work on it plz hlp.






Q: Some people can't connect to my server, some can. How to fix?

A:
Symptoms:
People who are using a home router (NAT) CAN'T connect to your server, but they CAN connect to other servers.
People connected directly to the internet, CAN connect to your server.
The machine that is running the server has more than one external ip number.

The server is probably sending replies using a different ip address than the one the clients connect to. (Most likely they connected to an alias, not the primary ip). Nat routers don't know what to do with this foreign incoming data (unknown ip+port), and drop the packets.

Solution:
Open the file server.ini that is created in the same directory where the server executable is located.
Look for the following line in section [Main Config]:

BoundToIp1=


Modify it like this:

BoundToIp1=213.202.254.117
This will make the server listen and send only on the specified address. Even easier is to let the clients connect to the primary IP of the machine.

Note: You can bind the server to multiple IP addresses by adding additional BoundToIp options (i.e. BoundToIp2, BoundToIp3, etc.) to your server.ini.