possible to set up a listen server on steam?

[Spunky]

Forward ports 27000-27030 (UDP and TCP) to your machine and try again.

 

[Nuttzy]

no different than before,
unless im forwarding ports wrong, im pretty sure that isnt the problem.

when i create a dedicated server, even in internet mode its IP appears to be one of a local server, (192.blah blah)

im pretty sure the ports are correct, looking at several examples via google.
sv_lan is set to 0, (but it keeps kicking it back to 1 when i create a game)



i noticed on one google search that when creating a game in CS:S there was an option to pick which network you were creating the game on, LAN or Internet.
this option is absent from my HLDM it appears, perhaps you cannot create a HLDM server this way? (im really starting to wonder)

 

[Spunky]

Change sv_lan to 0 in your server.cfg file in the ESF directory. That way when you start the game, it'll already be set to 0.

 

[Nuttzy]

HLDM is the only game we currently both own on steam, he has not purchased HL1 yet.

that purchase is riding on whether or not i can figure out why this isnt working.


what bugs me is that im doing what every page i can find says to do, i set sv_lan at 0, i type net_start, i even type heartbeat.
i have forwarded the ports, tried disabling my firewall too. and yet the damned thing will not create a internet game >_>,
I have a feeling im missing something very obvious.


lets say i just wanted to be able to send him an IP of my server, and not worry about if its in the list or not.
( i read someone else here could do that), how would i go about doing that?

 

[Nuttzy]

i dont know what i did, but i got 1 working.

i was randomly spouting out console commands

sv_lan 0
net_start
heartbeat
etc,

and someone joined =O, now if i can just decipher what exactly i did correctly i got this in the bag