creating LAN server: server not visible or connectable
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:40 am
My brothers and I downloaded OC 1.35 to play through the HL2 campaign together at LAN parties. Then we found a bunch of cool new maps to play, and were looking forward to a lot of fun.
The first night we installed the game, it worked fine. One of us hosted a LAN server (sv_lan 1), and everyone joined the server, and then we played through the canals level of HL2, and it was a lot of fun.
We tried to play again a couple days later, but when we tried to find the server one of us hosted on the LAN, there was nothing visible. The server wasn't listed under friends or internet either. Connecting directly through the console did not work. Changing sv_lan to 0 didn't work and the server did not show up anywhere that way either.
We can all play individually, but that sort of defeats the purpose of everyone playing together.
Firewalls have all allowed the game through, we can all play CSS together, but no matter who hosts the LAN server, nobody can see it in the "join a server" list or join it directly.
Does anyone know what the problem is? Are we missing something obvious?
I searched and looked through the wiki, but didn't see anything relevant. Thanks.
The first night we installed the game, it worked fine. One of us hosted a LAN server (sv_lan 1), and everyone joined the server, and then we played through the canals level of HL2, and it was a lot of fun.
We tried to play again a couple days later, but when we tried to find the server one of us hosted on the LAN, there was nothing visible. The server wasn't listed under friends or internet either. Connecting directly through the console did not work. Changing sv_lan to 0 didn't work and the server did not show up anywhere that way either.
We can all play individually, but that sort of defeats the purpose of everyone playing together.
Firewalls have all allowed the game through, we can all play CSS together, but no matter who hosts the LAN server, nobody can see it in the "join a server" list or join it directly.
Does anyone know what the problem is? Are we missing something obvious?
I searched and looked through the wiki, but didn't see anything relevant. Thanks.