Hi Guys I am back and renting a server again. Its a VPS with remote desktop connection. All ports are open and i allowed all of the required ports via the firewall. The server is set up and running. I can ping the server IP from my PC all ports are open however, i can not connect to the empyrion server..... any assistance would be appreciated.
Same problem! Everything is set up, everything is redirected and opened! The server is not listed in the server list ((((
So i played around a bit more. enabled telnet client and server for use of EMP admin helper. Created a new YAML for a new game. Start server game server starts and creates new save under save folder (thus confirming its using and running the correct configs) taks manager shows empyrion and payfield server emp admin helper turns green and thus running. yet, not connecting to server via direct ip - empyrion states connection timed out
Hello man! OK. I solved the problem)))) This is our problem man !!!! I did: I reset the router I flashed the last firmware router! And put the server (where the redirect to configure) In the DMZ mode And it all worked!
So i have successfully just hosted 2 other games on the server and thus is not a server issues but an empyrion issue
Have you checked Windows' internal firewall? Pay special attention to the corporate/private/public zones. They can get quite wonky, more so if you enable IPv6 (since it's always set as automatic addressing, it sometimes starts before IPv4 and resets the zone to public) Then there's Empyrion's dedicated.yaml According to what documentation I could find: Srv_Port Default is 30000. If your are using a router and/or a firewall, you need to forward the ports 30000-30004 UDP and TCP. (by the same token, depending on your firewall, you might have to add in rules for both TCP and UDP) Unless you're tunneling it through something encrypted you should really disable it. Telnet is inherently evil unless over a serial link. You should really open only the relevant ports. Windows hosted servers are zombified at an alarming rate.
Firewall disabled all ports are opened and confirmed via port scanner that it can reach the server cool will remove telnet as i see now admin helper also dont use it anymore
Can you reach you server with both UDP and TCP at port 30000? (as stated by En_Ma before) In my firewall at home, I forwarded (DNAT) ports 30000-30004 both TCP and UDP to my server. Most port scanners by default only check TCP. I think (did not check!) that port 30000 is TCP for the initial connect and 30000 UDP for the 'rest' of the game. Windows firewall is fine and all, but are you sure the router to the server is in DMZ mode? (aka all ports forwarded) --------- In my own experience my first dedicated hosting attempt failed because I did not opened UDP. Empyrion says it will connect, but after a small while it still gave up telling my friend something along the line 'connection failed' or something like that. Then I opened the above range in both protocols and voilà, it worked!
Im hosting via service provider so they open all ports forwarding to the server i have now reactivated the fire wall and will only open 30000-30004 in TCP and UDP and see
I guess it still does not work? I see in the last post that EmpyrionDedicated.exe is listening. In the post before that, the executable (not the specific ports) only have a Private profile set to them. I think you connect to the Windows server using the Public profile. Could you try to disable the two EmpyrionDedicated.exe and the two EmpyrionPlayfieldServer.exe rules? Then you are sure that the rules for the specific ports on the 'All' profile will take preference.
ok, have disabled them. lets see. but surely these program should be given access? maybe make them public?
ok, we finally got it working! for some reason server 2012R2 does not like port 30000. So server is running on 30002 and i had to open port 30005 in addition
I've got my own hardware at home with Windows Server 2012R2, and no problems with that port... But great it's working for you!
nope, back to having issues... could connect once play a bit but now keep getting time out message again also strange is if i look under the save folder of the saved game, it did not save player or playfield info and the log attached...server is running
