Hi, Ive been trying to work the steam 'Dedicated server' in play games for a long time and had no luck, ive read many posts and none of them expain what to do in English. I want to create a server so me and my mates on a server that i can host off my bog standard pc ( if it is possable ) Ive tryed create server and then changing sv_lan to 0 but still my friends cant get on. Ive changed the port to every number you can think of to get it working eg . 27015 , 27016. The erroh my friends get trying to connect is 'Server not responding' i have a norton anti firewall which i have disbaled and then created one = still didnt work ... and i am running out of things to do. If anyone could help me i woudl be very grateful and try my best to understand .. im not stupid but im not a 'wiz' so be patient :) Thx Rich Richard Phillip Courtman

Hi, Did you dissable the XPee firewall aswell? Oz "Bite off more than you can chew, And chew like hell!" Peter Brock. Yahoo Id. ozyoiy

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The first thing i thought of was the XP Firewall, that holds me back in a few programs, as ozyoiy said "Did you dissable the XPee firewall aswell?" That would also my first choice, nice thinking Oz. AMD XP2800 2*256mb Sticks of DDR400 Kingston Valueram Thermaltake Xaser III VM2000A Thermaltake 480W Silent PurePower Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256mb Maxtor Diamondmax 9 80GB 2mb Cache