Yet another help topic..

[DeltaOne]

Hello everyone.

Just recently I tried installing this Mani Admin Plugin. (I am trying to make this work FOR LAN - VERY IMPORTANT - not a dedicated server, but rather a playing server)

I got myself the 'mani_admin_plugin_v1_1_0zk' downloaded and de-archived, copying the files into the /cstrike/ directory (cstrike/addons, cstrike/cfg, cstrike/materials, cstrike/sound).

In the 'cstrike/cfg' I have the folder 'mani_admin_plugin' and the files mani_server.cfg and autoexec.cfg.
Inside the folder 'cstrike/cfg/mani_admin_plugin/' I have:
- the 'language' folder (english.cfg and language.cfg)
- the 'mani_logs' folder (it is empty)
- the 'man_config' (cs_reflex3.cfg)
- the 'restrict' ( cs_reflex3_restrict.txt)
- the txt files actionsoundlist.txt, admingroup.txt ........ webshortcutlist.txt, wordfilter.txt, a total of 29 txt files)

I enter the cstrike/addons. Inside I have the 'CreateVDF.exe' and 'mani_admin_plugin.dll'. I click on CreateVDF and it creates a .vdf file named 'mani_admin_plugin.vdf' inside the 'cstrike/addons' folder with the following content:

"Plugin"
{
"file" "../cstrike/addons/mani_admin_plugin"
}

Further, I enter the cstrike/cfg directory and create 'server.cfg' (I did not have it) - I put 'exec mani_server.cfg' inside and save it. I enter autoexec.cfg and put again 'exec mani_server.cfg' at the top of the list (the other things in that list were 'mani_reverse_admin_flags 0', adminlist.txt, 'mani_reverse_admin_immunity_flags 0', immunitylist.txt)

I enter the adminlist.txt from cstrike/cfg/mani_admin_plugin/adminlist.txt and add my IP as:
;192.168.1.x (x is the last number of my IP).

Thinking that everything is complete, I enter the game. The autoexec.cfg started I suppose, because it said something like 'Cbuf_AddText: buffer overflow' - I google around and decide to trim down my mani_server.cfg file into lesser ones named mani_server1,2,3,4,5,6,7.cfg (I add them all into the server.cfg and autoexec.cfg)

I enter the game again. That error dissapeared, but something else happened - not even a single command was recognised!

execing mani_server1.cfg
****** Executing mani_server.cfg ******
Unknown command "mani_adverts"
Unknown command "mani_time_between_adverts"
Unknown command "mani_adverts_chat_area"
Unknown command "mani_adverts_top_left"
Unknown command "mani_advert_col_red"
Unknown command "mani_advert_col_green"
Unknown command "mani_advert_col_blue"
Unknown command "mani_stats"
Unknown command "mani_stats_mode"
Unknown command "mani_stats_drop_player_days"
Unknown command "mani_stats_calculate"
Unknown command "mani_stats_kills_required"
Unknown command "mani_stats_top_display_time"
Unknown command "mani_stats_show_rank_to_all"
Unknown command "mani_stats_alternative_rank_message"
Unknown command "mani_stats_write_text_file"
Unknown command "mani_stats_write_to_disk_frequency"
Unknown command "mani_stats_by_steam_id"
Unknown command "mani_stats_include_bot_kills"
Unknown command "mani_show_victim_stats"
Unknown command "mani_show_victim_stats_inflicted_only"
Unknown command "mani_player_settings_damage"
execing mani_server2.cfg
Unknown command "mani_tk_protection"
Unknown command "mani_tk_forgive"
Unknown command "mani_tk_spawn_time"
Unknown command "mani_tk_allow_bots_to_punish"
Unknown command "mani_tk_allow_bots_to_add_violations"
Unknown command "mani_tk_offences_for_ban"
Unknown command "mani_tk_ban_time"
Unknown command "mani_tk_slap_on_team_wound"
Unknown command "mani_tk_slap_on_team_wound_damage"
Unknown command "mani_tk_show_opposite_team_wound"
Unknown command "mani_tk_add_violation_without_forgive"
....................

Now my question is: What the heck am I doing wrong?

[kleos]

you are creating the server from ingame correct?

rename the server.cfg to listenserver.cfg
in the adminlist.txt
;127.0.0.1
;localhost

close steam and try it again.

[DeltaOne]

Interesting. I'll try that in a bit...

[DeltaOne]

Some commands were recognised (from the config file) but I couldn't make any further work in the console. I'll let you know if I decide to pursue this.

[DeltaOne]

OK, I'm back.


I've just updated my version of CS:S and re-installed everything. (apparently my problems were because I had an older version of CS:S with an old console)

Anyway, now I've got bigger problems. I installed mani v1.1 and mani v1.2 and none of them work. The funny thing is..

On mani v1.1:
- I de-archived it and copied the 4 folders into the cstrike folder on my machine, making a .vdf image.
- I entered the game and somewhat some stuff loaded, because on typing "admin" on the console I got an error message that I was not the admin.

So I decided working on mani v1.1. Because it worked, I did not bother to create a server.cfg or listenserver.cfg file (I have none), and I began playing with the adminlist.txt file.
At the bottom I added:
;192.168.1.x (where x is the last digit of my ip)
;localhost

Entered again the game, it did not work (same, it said that I was not the admin)

I then decided to create a server.cfg and a listenserver.cfg file with "exec mani_server.cfg" (without the quotes) and to edit my adminlist.txt file to contain two more variables:
;127.0.0.1
;;"My Nick";

By this time, when I entered the game IT FROZE at 'Loading Resources...' (the hl.exe process was gaining memory usage every second - when I closed it it was somewhere at a looping 700,000 and still rising)

I decided to remove server.cfg and listenserver.cfg - the same, it froze. I decided to remove the adminlist.txt file, same.

I decided to install mani v1.2.

On mani v1.2:
- I de-archived it and copied the 4 folders into the cstrike folder on my machine, making a .vdf image.
- I entered the game and the mani_plugin was not recognised.
- I made a clients.txt file in that appropiate folder
- Still, on mani v1.2 I can't try the game because it's not recognised, not even if I add a server.cfg and a listenserver.cfg file with exec mani_server.cfg (no mani commands are recognised!)




My question is: How the heck can I get admin powers?
- on mani v1.1 because now by adding anything there at adminlist.txt (be it ;127.0.0.1 or ;;"My Nick"; , ;localhost) the game FROZEZ. Is there another way?
- on mani v1.2 the plugin's not recognised at all (It says exactly what it says in my first post here)

[kleos]

for 1.1 the adminlist should have
;127.0.0.1
;localhost

as for the 1.2, after you create the .vdf restart close and restart steam.
you should only have to add exec mani_server.cfg for it to work.
if 1.2R doesn't work try 1.2O

[DscytheX]

I had the same problem when starting up a Listening server. Here's how I got it to work:

Make sure you also have the MetaMod:Source addon as well. Don't use the VDF file creator since MetaMod will run Mani. if you created this file delete it. You need to get metamod working before you can get Mani to work.
The problem lies in the Gamesinfo.txt file and MetaMod and you also need a sourcemm.bat file to load CS with after being logged in to Steam. Here's what you do.

you need to edit the Gameinfo.txt file in the cstrike folder to look like this:

"GameInfo"
{
game "Counter-Strike Source"
title "COUNTER-STRIKE'"
title2 "source"
type multiplayer_only
nomodels 1
nohimodel 1
nocrosshair 0
hidden_maps
{
"test_speakers" 1
"test_hardware" 1
}
nodegraph 0


FileSystem
{
SteamAppId 240 // This will mount all the GCFs we need (240=CS:S,

220=HL2).
ToolsAppId 211 // Tools will load this (ie: source SDK caches) to

get things like materials\debug, materials\editor, etc.

//
// The code that loads this file automatically does a few things here:
//
// 1. For each "Game" search path, it adds a "GameBin" path, in <dir>\bin
// 2. For each "Game" search path, it adds another "Game" path in front of it with _<langage> at the end.
// For example: c:\hl2\cstrike on a french machine would get a c:\hl2\cstrike_french path added to it.
// 3. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "MOD".
// 4. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "DEFAULT_WRITE_PATH".
//

//
// Search paths are relative to the base directory, which is where hl2.exe is found.
//
// |gameinfo_path| points at the directory where gameinfo.txt is.
// We always want to mount that directory relative to gameinfo.txt, so
// people can mount stuff in c:\mymod, and the main game resources are in
// someplace like c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\<username>\half-life 2.
//
SearchPaths
{
GameBin |gameinfo_path|addons/metamod/bin
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game cstrike
Game hl2
}
}
}


The main change is the line GameBin |gameinfo_path|addons/metamod/bin
Just add this line before the Game |gameinfo_path|.

Then create a new notepad file and copy this into it:

cd "cstrike"
copy GameInfo.txt.mms GameInfo.txt
cd ..
hl2.exe -insecure -console -game cstrike

Save the file with Save as to your counter-strike folder (not the cstrike but the one before it) for easy access and name it sourcemm.bat.
When you save it make sure to change the tab that says Save as from Text Documents (*.txt) to All files.
Then make a shortcut of it and drop it on your desktop.

Now after all that start Steam, then double click sourcemm.bat to run it. It should start CS for you.
Now create your game using the menu.
Then to run mani you type this into the console :
meta load addonsmani_admin_pluginbinmani_admin_plugin_mm

to get the admin menu type admin in the console.

If you log on to CS witout using the sourcemm.bat file it will erase the line you added to the Gameinfo.txt file so I keep a copy of it saved under Gameinfo.mm.txt. This way I can just copy and paste it when I wanna start using Mani for admin purposes on Lan.

Hope this works for you. =)