[SOLVED] Filesharing and Avatars

[KoldFusion]

EDIT: I will try to clean up this documentation. I was written without sleep since release of Beta 1 and is being updated as more information is found out
I am NOT a Technical Documentation Writer nor do I worl for TS. I am just another fan-boy like you.

Over the Chrismas break I will have time away from being online where I will try to make a cleaner, easier to understand more condensed version of this document. If you have any information to add or would like to give a hand some how please drop me a line through the forums here.

Before the break I had time to make a HOWTO Video. View the thread HERE http://forum.teamspeak.com/showthread.php?t=47767


After messing with this since release I finally figured it out and a big thanks to the peeps at The KHuDA Clan and the Novare Res WoW Guild (Alliance US Durotan) for dealing with the up and down TS3 for the last or so.

This HOWTO is assuming you got your server up and running but the Avatars and Uploads are not fully functional

SYMPTOMS: This will probably only help you if you have these symptoms
- You can set your avatar, you can see it fine but everyone else sees WAITING FOR DOWNLOAD/UPLOAD
- You seem to be able to upload files to your Server, you see them on the server but they are 0KB or you get a Transfer Time Out error and then they disappear.

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MAKE SURE IPS FOR TRANSFER, QUERY and VOICE are all the same Though I am sure we have editable varriables for these paramaters for a reason.

To start off you NEED to have the smaller serveradmin token you got when you started the server. Not the long token you used as soon as you connected for the first time.

Example of the one you need

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                      I M P O R T A N T
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              Server Query Admin Acccount created
         loginname= "serveradmin", password= "zbH4qRt7"
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This only shows ONCE when you start the server the first time. So make sure you are doing it in console for Windows and Linux where you can see the output. Linux users, that means no nohup or &. Either use screen or in the current shell window.

If you did not copy this information down the first time you are going to have to start all over again.

BIG WARNING!!! If your server query tool pass word has non alpha numeric characters ( Example />(^%# ) use the manual login option in the Server Query Tool and remove the line with login and password
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The big problem I am seeing is that Server Admins are just starting the process, logging in to the server and using the long Auth Token and stopping there. But after that you got one more big thing to do to make you a true admin.

Big thanks to Jwevrsn in this post about using the Server Querry Tool
http://forum.teamspeak.com/showthread.php?t=46779

Follow his 2nd post steps

Now launch the Server Query tool CTRL + SHIFT + V

Click the icon in the top right corner and select login command.

In the box enter your serveradmin password produced earlier.

login serveradmin PN7QBFeq
use sid=1
servergroupaddclient sgid=2 cldbid=2

At the bottom of the screen if you typed it right you should see

<16:47:32> "XXXX" was added to server group "Admin Server Query (2)" by "serveradmin from XXXX".

Level 100!

Once you have Level 100 access you are good to go on the juicy part.

SETUP THE SERVER TO ALLOW FILE TRANSFERS BOTH WAYS

BIG EDIT: TS3 Server Beta 2+ Has the propper variable set to 128849018881 But double check


-In your TS Client right click your Virtual Server Name (Looks like the Top Channel) and select EDIT VIRTUAL SERVER

-In the new window select MORE (Bottom Left), More options should open up below.

-Select the transfers tab

-You will notice the UPLOAD BANDWIDTH LIMIT is set to 1. Set it to 128849018881
If this is grayed out for you. You did not use the server query tool correctly as explained by the amazing Jwevrsn. Without this part the rest cant happen.
YOUR ALMOST THERE!

Now you will notice the new TS3 has a very confusing permission system. Well if you stare at it long enough it makes crystal clear sense and you will realize you were overcomplicating it yourself. I say this because I think I started to go bald at one point these last few days and then it all made sense.

Each channel has permissions. When the channel is created it copies the new channel permissions from a template.

PROVISION THE CHANNEL FOR SHARING

- Choose one channel you want to allow filesharing for. You can do more later if you want.

- Right Click the channel and select Channel Permissions.

- In the new window in the right pane/section you will notice the bottom option is FILE TRANSFER. Right click that and select ADD PERMISSION GROUP

- Check off Browse and List

- You will notice all the numbers (Probably 100) These are interger weights or as they were called in one post "Pecking order" The weights or numbers must be equal too or lower than the clients given access for them to have whatever permission you set up.

This may be aconfusing concept so I will give an example in post#2