[JHoersten2]

Join request approved
New client. Client Info: ID: 37851268, Players: 1, Gamertag: Crakrjakr, Avatar: 2, Team: 0
Telling remote to join server 192.168.2.***:27015 [local 192.168.2.***:27015]
Dropped player: 45322102, 110000102b38f76!
[L4DMM] CMatchGame::RemovePlayer - Cannot find player by 110000102b38f76!

I finally got my dedicated server to work, I can connect, and obviously others can attempt to. So the game sees it, my pc/router notices it, yet players can't connect to it.

Now, I have my ports all forwarded up. I've tried combinations of 2700-27050 TCP and UDP, 27015-27015, etc etc etc. No matter the case, players are still dropped with the above message. I have no idea what to do. I have the server.cfg entries all set according to everything i've found off google. I'm just stuck.

Any help would be awesome. I'm so close, yet so far from just getting people in the game.

-J

[Whosat]

How did you connect to your server? using connect 192.168.2.***:27015?

Try using your external IP to connect instead.

[JHoersten2]

started using external IP to ms_force_dedicated_server from lobby, and set lobby connections only to 1.

It's working. I only turn it on when I'm online to play w/ my addons, so lobby connection is fine. ; )

Thank you sir, the push I needed after an aggravatingly long day.