Talk:Tutorials/Setting up a server/Archive 1

Fix tutorial
The link to "Windows tutorial with focus on how to forward a port" under "Other Tutorials" is broken. Anyone has a new one?

Mac issue
I run a mac and when I execute start.command I always get the following:

admin/op.txt
2. Add your username to the admin.txt and op.txt. Admin.txt allows you to execute server commands, and op privileges allows you to destroy/place blocks.

Isn't it ops.txt? is admin.txt still used? TiriPon 20:51, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Old server version linked
It may be worth mentioning in the download section that the link at the top of http://www.minecraft.net/servers.jsp results in one downloading an extremely out of date server. Mirth23 23:47, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Permissions?
I run a 15 inch macbook pro (1 or 2 models ago) with mac OS X 10.6.7 (the most current). Im trying to start my minecraft server via "start.command". Yet, "I don't have permission." I tried unlocking the file info window and changing my permission to read and access. Even when I do and the changes are saved, I still don't have permission. Help please?

Nevermind. I just changed the permissions for "net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer" and everything is fixed.

Hamachi
How do I sign up for admin rights using Hamachi? Joev14 19:57, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Split this article?
This article is very confusing to read. I believe splitting this article into "Windows Help" "Linux Help" and "Mac Help" would greatly improve the article. Hailfire 15:28, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

I agree. Mepholic 20:05, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Hamatchi Admin?
Make it more clear how to become an admin on hamatchi, I can't figure it out for the life of me.

Hamachi Admin not needed
As far as I can tell, to set up a Hamachi server you do not actually need to have "Admin Rights" as the article states. You just need to click Network and then Create a New Network. Whoever joins your server just clicks "join an existing network" and then enters the network name you specified. There are tons of videos about it on Youtube. I am running a server and I never signed up for "Admin Rights". Please change this, if it has not been changed already.

p.s. If you are trying to set up a server, Hamachi is a lot easier than port forwarding. Bobthejeffmonkey 23:48, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Swappiness on Linux Servers?
Has anybody experimented with swappiness on Linux based Minecraft servers? There has been a lot of debate over whether servers vs. desktops should swap more or less. The general consensus is that servers should swap memory more, while desktops should swap memory less.

Some good reading on this right here.

I have a suspicion that lowering the swappiness on a Linux based Minecraft servers will lower the load time for chunks that people haven't seen or been in for a while. Mepholic 20:27, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Java Virtual Machine still not working
XP Machine has 2GB of Ram, which should be plenty. Online version of the game works fine. But every time I try to run minecraft.exe, it says "failed to start Java virtual machine". Any steps I'm missing? Chadlupkes 02:10, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Alternative Java packages
Arch Linux has alternative java packages in community besides openjdk:

community/jre 7-3 Oracle's Java Runtime Environment community/jdk 7-3 Oracle's Java Development Kit

jre is all that's required for the Minecraft server to work. -Worldwise001 06:32, 9 August 2011 (UTC)