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How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Ninjaoninja2 » 16 Nov 2013, 01:41

Hello Again Friendly Support,
I need help with adding people to my admin panel that are not on my local network the guide confuses me can you try to walk me through it?
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby rjgtav » 16 Nov 2013, 02:56

Good evening,

In order to configure multiple administrator accounts you'll have to configure the Remote Administrators setting on the Server Configurator module of the AdminTool.
You can find a more detailed explanation of all the options at the documentation, on the "Remote Admin tab" section:
http://docs2x.smartfoxserver.com/Gettin ... nfigurator

Basically, you'll have to either create an Administrator account for each person or use the same one for all of you.
Then, if you want to increase the security, you can restrict who can enter the AdminTool by their IP.
You can also configure the Administrator TCP port, to increase the security even further, as connections on the wrong port will be refused (Note: If the user can't connect via Socket, the AdminTool will try connecting via BlueBox, which will use a different port and therefore be prevented by the server if this setting is enabled).

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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Ninjaoninja2 » 17 Nov 2013, 00:19

rjgtav wrote:Good evening,

In order to configure multiple administrator accounts you'll have to configure the Remote Administrators setting on the Server Configurator module of the AdminTool.
You can find a more detailed explanation of all the options at the documentation, on the "Remote Admin tab" section:
http://docs2x.smartfoxserver.com/Gettin ... nfigurator

Basically, you'll have to either create an Administrator account for each person or use the same one for all of you.
Then, if you want to increase the security, you can restrict who can enter the AdminTool by their IP.
You can also configure the Administrator TCP port, to increase the security even further, as connections on the wrong port will be refused (Note: If the user can't connect via Socket, the AdminTool will try connecting via BlueBox, which will use a different port and therefore be prevented by the server if this setting is enabled).

Hope this helps

It still didn't work none of my staff members still cannot connect (they are not on the same network)
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Bax » 18 Nov 2013, 09:44

Make sure your server is binding the right IP address (General tab of the AdminTool's Server Configurator module).
By default the server is bound to 127.0.0.1, making it unreachable other than from the same computer.
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Ninjaoninja2 » 18 Nov 2013, 19:00

So would to do that I would go into the server configurator and go under the general tab and change the two localhost ips to the ip i opened the tcp and udp ports 9933
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Bax » 19 Nov 2013, 09:14

Yes. That's the fundamental step to make the server "visible" on the network.
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Ninjaoninja2 » 20 Nov 2013, 03:34

Bax wrote:Yes. That's the fundamental step to make the server "visible" on the network.

It still didn't work when my buddy goes to the page it says Sorry But Google Chrome could not find this webpage or something like that
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Bax » 20 Nov 2013, 08:43

What web page sorry? The AdminTool page? Or your game?
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Ninjaoninja2 » 20 Nov 2013, 19:11

The admin tool
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Bax » 21 Nov 2013, 09:23

If they can't even reach the webpage, then the server is unreachable. Maybe you have a firewall preventing the connection. Also check the server logs, to make sure there are no startup errors.
Please follow the "post installation tasks" described on this page: http://docs2x.smartfoxserver.com/Gettin ... stallation
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Ninjaoninja2 » 23 Nov 2013, 01:15

Hey Baxthanks so much my friend can now get to the Admin tool Page but for some unknown reason he cannot log in to the admin tool using the public IP address as the host
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Bax » 23 Nov 2013, 12:24

I think it's a configuration issue. Please post a screenshot of the Remote Admin tab of the Server Configurator module.
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby Ninjaoninja2 » 23 Nov 2013, 18:15

Bax wrote:I think it's a configuration issue. Please post a screenshot of the Remote Admin tab of the Server Configurator module.

All right, Here you go: Image
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Re: How do I allow admins into the admin panel....

Postby rjgtav » 25 Nov 2013, 01:07

Hi,

For testing purposes, try setting the Administration TCP Port setting to -1 and then restart the server.
If your buddy is able to login after this, then he's either connecting to the wrong port (please double check) or his firewall is preventing him from establishing a direct connection.

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