Hi
Ive had my server up for some week or so and ive noticed that i have quite many disconnects due to duplicated guid. I perfectly well know what is this dupicated guid thing and thats pretty rare i think whereas at my server it happens pretty often. Does any cavar can cause such disconncect? I have max client ip set to 3 but i think its not a case…punkbuster is off too.
Regards,
Karol
if you have punkbuster off - probably a lot of hackers wanna play in your server - meaning they have all kind of problems with connecting and stuff. I think this is the reason 
I witnessed one such thing:
Later i !fingered this Gii guy and i turned out that he has no quide at all. Is there anything i can do, i mean me as server owner, or its just some cfg problem of this guy who has no guide?
Well, my friend has this problem too, his GUID is always <unknown>. I don’t know why, but I guess this has something to do with internet connection
It’s a problem caused by the client He should check if pb is running, let him do pb_myguid in console. Also try fetching a new guid with \pb_cdkeyreg
[QUOTE=BlackEight;222682]Hi
punkbuster is off too.
Regards,
Karol[/QUOTE]
Enable it and problem will be fixed.
[QUOTE=hellreturn;222922]Enable it and problem will be fixed.[/QUOTE]If you want to avoid all the lags, the bugs, the kicks and the [noparse]****[/noparse] that sv_punkbuster 1 will bring whit it, a small explanation why this error occurs and how to fix it:
The simple reason is, that all the clients that do have an unknown/empty GUID dont have their client-PB enabled. This can ONLY be fixed client-side on a server that has PB disabled ( a server with enabled PB will tell every connecting client to enable his PB ). So tell all those guys to enable their PB. This can be done very easily by starting your Game (client-side) with the parameter “+set cl_punkbuster 1”. Add it to the shortcut path or create a Batch.
Unfortunately, it’s mostly those guys that do not read the chat who have their PB disabled. So I wish you luck to explain them how to enable it.
In my time, the pb server just said ‘Yo, enable your client pb, or don’t come in’,
So when did that change ?
Oh silly me, is it the plain ET thats checking for duplicate guids or a mod ?
What mod are you running Blackeight ?
And can the player with the invalid guid play in other (non-pb) servers ? If not, he might not be a ‘clean’ player.
And like paul said, not having PB on is like signing a welcomeboard ‘yo cheaturz come herez!’
clients should update PB manually, just to make sure, remember to run any PB .exe in admin mode the first time
first of all try to be more specific if youre running a server in 2.6b patch and if you have a custom pk3 files in your server, sometimes some players whhile connecting at first time in a server they download files and got kicked by unknow pk3 files or something like that and when this occur they just press recconect but when they are connecting you can see in the list the server already count him as a player (99% of time with 999 ping) so he got duplicated guid and server kicks. But in my opinion this problem happens because they didnt have a guid, so Use the PB ON, punkbuster is part of game this feature is there for a reason and why ppls still put it OFF, cant really uunderstand that, play in server with cheaters is like a get a girl with balls!!
… is it just me or is this thread like mega confusing? 
He said in the first post that pb is turned off so i have no idea why that would be causing any problems.
Even if the client has it disabled too it’s not required to play on his server so where is the problem there?
My guess is that it’s probably something in the mod that blocks people with the same/no guid, check the settings there.
since you cant force that while the client is connecting id say write it in the loading screen.
Yeah, thats right.
Punkbuster is disabled by default, you have to enable it manually. And now show me a newbie that knows how to.
I doubt that mod settings can have anything to do with no-guide thing. I worked on that for a while and now i think its just the punkbuster off from the client site.
I installed et on my brothers machine and went to my server. With punkbuster off, in !listplayers i couldnt see my guide there so i tried in-game pb_cl_enable and then pb_cdkeyreg (after which i was kicked from server due to unknown reason). Later i couldnt connect to server due to pk3 files, you know unpure client. I reinstalled the game and know i tried to enable pb from et starting panel (when you run et in the bottow left corner there is pb enable/disable button). When i connected into the server then in !listplayers i did have the guide so after making some xp i disconnected and connected again…to me relief my guide and xp was still there. Only wierd thing was that every time i had to enable pb manually before entering my server.
I reinstalled et several times to see if this happens the same way every time. It seems like you need to enable pb before going to game server…in-game there is a problem.
If the server is pb off, you’ll obviously need to manually enable client first to generate guid