Is there a simple howto for seting up a home quake server?

[rollingglue]

Hi. i wanna play multiplayer games with two laptops at home. Some points are:

I would like cheat codes to work. I'm using the darkplaces client over Fedora 12 or Fedora 13. Server is Fedora 12 64 bit.

I tried crmod but it only seems to work on 32 bit systems. At least, that's what i think this error means:

/usr/bin/ldd: ./crmake.linux: /lib/ld-linux.so.1: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

Any help is appreciated.

[Mr.Burns]

In the past when I have set up LAN parties the first step towards this would be to get a modern quake engine such as proquake working on each laptop. As you have Darkplaces already running (assuming it is a later version) you're well on your way. As a simple test start quake on your "server" machine but add "-listen 4" on to the command line you are using to start quake
e.g.

[I]darkplacesengine.exe[/I] -listen 8  -game crmod -nocdaudio -mem 128 -zone 1024

Replace darkplacesengine.exe with whatever executable you are using

If you are having probs with CRMOD then trying dropping it out of the equation for now by removing

-game crmod

This should fire up quake on your server as normal and you should start a multiplayer game.

Now fire up quake on your client machine and try to connect to the server by typing the following in the quake console

connect 192.168.nnn.nnn

Remembering to replace 192.168.nnn.nnn with the ip address of your server

You may need to tweak some firewall rule if you have any, and possibly some network settings but for a simple deathmatch that should get you going [hopefully]


Hope this helps

Monty