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Hey guys... I'd like to talk about security of my private server. Before going public, what do I need to take care of? What are the kinds of attacks and hacks that I can expect? If we assume that the login details for server management are kept secret, important ports closed from public access, no backdoor in game file, and the server has hardware based DoS protection, what else is there? This would've been much easier if I was an asshole myself and continually messed around with cheating and hacking. I have no experience whatsoever with malicious attempts, and this (sadly) isn't a good thing when it comes to running my own server. Thanks in advance.

For people still having issues with this, let me try helping you out. What we are going to do is follow Shoguns tutorial from post 1, just a little more detailed for those of you who can't seem to get it right. Do you have 64 bit windows? CLICK ME Do you have 32 bit windows? CLICK ME This is the official download for Python 2.7.9. Open the installation and make sure it is exactly the same as these screenshots: Download the two files from Shoguns original post. FILE 1 and FILE 2 Unpack these two files. NOTE: if you are not using it yet, get it. It's called 7Zip. Just get it. (LINK) Did you unpack them? Great work. Now you see two directories (Micropenis calls them "Folders"): "World of Metin2 Client for metin2dev.org - Base" "World of Metin2 Client for metin2dev.org - Extra" I want you to create a new directory. Just put it on your desktop. Make your life easier. Name this new directory "Metin2WoM". Open this directory in one window. Open "World of Metin2 Client for metin2dev.org - Base" in another window, it contains three directories: Copy the first two, "client" and "server" into the "Metin2WoM" directory you created earlier. Now open the fresh copied "client" within "Metin2WoM", locate the file called "loginInfo.txt", and rename it to "loginInfo_TROLL_FILE.txt". Next thing, you see that "tools" directory? Cut that directory (Ctrl+X), open My Computer, open C:, and paste it here. Now the path to that directory is "C:tools". This was easy, right? You will need to add this path ("C:tools") to your system path. Do you know how to get to system path? If not, click Windows7 or Windows8. When you open the system path, use your arrow keys to move to the start of the line, write in "C:tools;". Do not forget to add the " ; " at the end. Now close all that, and open your "Metin2WoM" directory, and now also open the "World of Metin2 Client for metin2dev.org - Extra" in another window. Within this, open "client", then "data". Now you see a ton of stuff inside. Mark it all (Ctrl+A), cut it (Ctrl+X). Switch to the "Metin2WoM" window, open "data", and paste stuff inside (Ctrl+V). You are almost done now. Open "Metin2WoM", "client", "data", and maximize this window so it nicely covers your whole screen. If you want to modify "serverinfo.py", find it in "root" directory here. You see these files below the directories? There are twenty "make_xxx.bat" files. I want you to double click the first one (make_effect.bat), and not touch anything for a while. A command prompt window (cmd) will open, and it will shoot around some data. Wait for this window to close on its own. After you've done this with all twenty "make_crap.bat" files, get back to "Metin2WoM", "client", "bin", and locate the "metin2.bin". Copy and paste it, this will create "metin2 - Copy.bin". Rename "metin2 - Copy.bin" into "metin2client.exe". And just double click "metin2client.exe". If you followed my guide to the letter, your client will now happily pop up. EDIT: whenever you want to edit something for the client, just go to /pack, delete the epk/eix of what you want to edit, go back to data, edit it, run the appropriate make_xxx.bat file (if you want to modify "root", delete "root.epk" and "root.eix" in pack, modify the stuff in dataroot, then run the "make_root.bat").

you should work on achieving not a single error in any of the log/syserr files. im a newb at this, but the way im doing it is step by step - i started with auth first, then kept going. whenever you make a change, run the "sh clear.sh" to clear logs, then reboot the metin2 server and see whats new in the log/syserr.

that is an IP conflict... if you read the error it says that another device (shows its MAC address) is using the same IP address... you need to change something; im betting you input one IP without the .100 at the end?

i didnt mean source code, i meant source where he found this. i have not been able to locate vanilla core with any newer version than the one available here on m2dev. so where did he find it?

you're being far too vague, making everyone guess what might be the problem. can't help you like that... what errors do you get

link to original source would be appreciated...