Rob K
14-04-2008, 10:05
Hi, This is my first posting on this forum, as I am new to setting up voice servers, and I am not an IT specialist. If anyone could straighten out a few points for us, it would be most appreciated...
My situations is this:-
We have a crew on a survey ship (offshore), with about 20 people connected together on a LAN (10/100 ethernet). We wanted a voice comms server, so we chose Teamspeak.
I downloaded the installation files for Windows (we use XP pro),and Mac OS X, as we have a lot of iMacs. I downloaded both the server and client installation files over a PAINFULLY slow internet connection that this ship has, via a satellite link, as about 500 bytes per second (…not Kbytes, but bytes…)
I installed the server installation on my Toshiba X200-219 laptop. I also installed the client package, and installed the client package on two other laptops.
We tried to set up the server. We found that the default setting has only one channel. If I tried the “create channel” menu option in my laptops client installation, I could create another channel, but I could not swap people between channels, or present channel options for people to join separate channels. It also seemed to default to different codecs; speeks 13.2 on the iMac, and different one on my laptop. We could talk over the one channel on several laptops running the Windows XP client installations without any problems, as client setups were straightforward.
I right-clicked on the server icon in my system tray. It showed options for displaying and refreshing my i.p. address, and an “administrator” option. I tried to open the “administrator” option, but it displayed a page stating that I did not have access, or something like that. It prompted me for a user name and password, but I had not been into the “administrator” section of the server installation before and have not set a user name and password. It would not accept “blank” entries for username and password. In this environment, on a ship with a small crew, we do not need such things as “security” and passwords; we leave our wallets on our desks and our cabin doors open all day when we are on shift; security is not an issue and I would like to disable passwords…
We are not connected to the Internet in our cabins, only the LAN, so I knew it would not be able to browse the Internet for any web pages or “permissions” or whatever to allow me to enter the admin page.
I set my Internet options in Internet Explorer to indicate that I had an Intranet, though whether a LAN counts as an Intranet, I don’t know, as I am not an I.T. specialist. It is just a 24 port Ethernet switch connecting a lot of our cabins.
Ideally, I would like to run only one server, with three or more channels, so that we can have separate channels for teams on only the one server, so that the team administrator could swap people between channels easily when new game rounds start, and people enter and leave teams, and the players themselves could swap themselves between channels without needing any other “permissions” from an admin . We also have several languages for the players on this crew, so we would need a dedicated “Polish” channel, for example…
My questions are these:-
Every time that I re-launch the server package, it always generates the same i.p. address (196.254.138.95). Will it do this if I install it on another laptop? Is this fixed i.p. address an “internal” i.p. address of the laptop, or an “external” i.p. address on our LAN, that would cause a clash if I installed it on another laptop to create our “other” team channel?
How can I open the “Administrator” page on the server without an Internet connection for use only on a LAN? Please bear in mind that I have very limited access to the internet, over a 500 bytes per second link, so downloading a on megabyte file takes a couple of hours with all of the “slow” patches that are caused by blind spots on the satellite dish when the boat moves! Downloading anything or browsing web pages is slower than it was on land in the early 90’s via a 28K dial-up modem, so finding solutions by browsing would take a lifetime. If I need to download any additional files, or search web sites, every page I have to load or refresh takes about three or four minutes, IF I can maintain the connection…
How do I implement several team channels that can be joined freely by individual players choosing themselves, and swapping themselves between channels as games and maps change, and also allow an administrator to swap people about as and when necessary, without players having to minimize and navigate around the client installations themselves?
We have both windows XP and iMac installations to connect (iMac client installation downloaded, and running OK), and would like to use a common connection codec, so that there were no channel clashes. Which codec would give 10 or 15 people the best audio quality for the voice channels? All of our iMacs and laptops are fairly modern, so processor and memory limitations are not an issue.
How do I get around this “username and password” situation on the Adminstrators access to the server installation?
I have not done this sort of set-up before for voice servers. Our Call of Duty UO game server seems to run OK over the LAN, but that sets up OK from within the game menu interface. That bit was easy.
If anyone could offer any help or advice on setting Teamspeak up on an Ethernet LAN (not connected to the Internet), it would be most welcomed, as I have gotten frustrated trying to work out how to open this “Administrator” option in my server in the system tray.
Many thanks in advance,
Rob
My situations is this:-
We have a crew on a survey ship (offshore), with about 20 people connected together on a LAN (10/100 ethernet). We wanted a voice comms server, so we chose Teamspeak.
I downloaded the installation files for Windows (we use XP pro),and Mac OS X, as we have a lot of iMacs. I downloaded both the server and client installation files over a PAINFULLY slow internet connection that this ship has, via a satellite link, as about 500 bytes per second (…not Kbytes, but bytes…)
I installed the server installation on my Toshiba X200-219 laptop. I also installed the client package, and installed the client package on two other laptops.
We tried to set up the server. We found that the default setting has only one channel. If I tried the “create channel” menu option in my laptops client installation, I could create another channel, but I could not swap people between channels, or present channel options for people to join separate channels. It also seemed to default to different codecs; speeks 13.2 on the iMac, and different one on my laptop. We could talk over the one channel on several laptops running the Windows XP client installations without any problems, as client setups were straightforward.
I right-clicked on the server icon in my system tray. It showed options for displaying and refreshing my i.p. address, and an “administrator” option. I tried to open the “administrator” option, but it displayed a page stating that I did not have access, or something like that. It prompted me for a user name and password, but I had not been into the “administrator” section of the server installation before and have not set a user name and password. It would not accept “blank” entries for username and password. In this environment, on a ship with a small crew, we do not need such things as “security” and passwords; we leave our wallets on our desks and our cabin doors open all day when we are on shift; security is not an issue and I would like to disable passwords…
We are not connected to the Internet in our cabins, only the LAN, so I knew it would not be able to browse the Internet for any web pages or “permissions” or whatever to allow me to enter the admin page.
I set my Internet options in Internet Explorer to indicate that I had an Intranet, though whether a LAN counts as an Intranet, I don’t know, as I am not an I.T. specialist. It is just a 24 port Ethernet switch connecting a lot of our cabins.
Ideally, I would like to run only one server, with three or more channels, so that we can have separate channels for teams on only the one server, so that the team administrator could swap people between channels easily when new game rounds start, and people enter and leave teams, and the players themselves could swap themselves between channels without needing any other “permissions” from an admin . We also have several languages for the players on this crew, so we would need a dedicated “Polish” channel, for example…
My questions are these:-
Every time that I re-launch the server package, it always generates the same i.p. address (196.254.138.95). Will it do this if I install it on another laptop? Is this fixed i.p. address an “internal” i.p. address of the laptop, or an “external” i.p. address on our LAN, that would cause a clash if I installed it on another laptop to create our “other” team channel?
How can I open the “Administrator” page on the server without an Internet connection for use only on a LAN? Please bear in mind that I have very limited access to the internet, over a 500 bytes per second link, so downloading a on megabyte file takes a couple of hours with all of the “slow” patches that are caused by blind spots on the satellite dish when the boat moves! Downloading anything or browsing web pages is slower than it was on land in the early 90’s via a 28K dial-up modem, so finding solutions by browsing would take a lifetime. If I need to download any additional files, or search web sites, every page I have to load or refresh takes about three or four minutes, IF I can maintain the connection…
How do I implement several team channels that can be joined freely by individual players choosing themselves, and swapping themselves between channels as games and maps change, and also allow an administrator to swap people about as and when necessary, without players having to minimize and navigate around the client installations themselves?
We have both windows XP and iMac installations to connect (iMac client installation downloaded, and running OK), and would like to use a common connection codec, so that there were no channel clashes. Which codec would give 10 or 15 people the best audio quality for the voice channels? All of our iMacs and laptops are fairly modern, so processor and memory limitations are not an issue.
How do I get around this “username and password” situation on the Adminstrators access to the server installation?
I have not done this sort of set-up before for voice servers. Our Call of Duty UO game server seems to run OK over the LAN, but that sets up OK from within the game menu interface. That bit was easy.
If anyone could offer any help or advice on setting Teamspeak up on an Ethernet LAN (not connected to the Internet), it would be most welcomed, as I have gotten frustrated trying to work out how to open this “Administrator” option in my server in the system tray.
Many thanks in advance,
Rob