Author Topic: Suddenly getting error message: "Could not bind file server socket"  (Read 865 times)

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Offline Morter

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Hello. I hate to make this one of my first posts here, though I've been a fan of Soldat for a while.

Anyway, me and a friend were just playing a quick couple of matches online. I had already forwarded my ports, did all that good stuff, and we've been playing for weeks now. I make a routine map change, and all of a sudden, he can't join. Even on settings set to previous games. Hell, just 10 minutes ago, he could join, now he can't, and I've done nothing drastic!

If anything, the only difference was the mod. I was trying out the Universal Forces mod, specifically each weapon pack. We had just finished playing with Night, and decided to change both map and mod. When I did, he couldn't join again. I tried going back to night, as did he, and yet, he couldn't join my server!

This isn't a dedicated server by the way, just to clear that up.

Anyway, after a few tries, I saw the inconspicuous "Could not bind file server socket: 28083"

I've restarted both soldat and my computer, refreshed/renewed my network configs, checked my IP multiple times, and still see no sign of this stopping.

Any reason why this is happening? Any way to stop it?

Thanks a lot, in advance.

Offline chrisgbk

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Re: Suddenly getting error message: "Could not bind file server socket"
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2007, 08:39:18 pm »
Some other program is using the needed ports, so soldat can't use (bind) them.

Offline Morter

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Re: Suddenly getting error message: "Could not bind file server socket"
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2007, 08:39:16 pm »
This is the only time out of the several weeks of me hosting games that this has happened.

Is there a program that commonly takes the client port?

Offline FliesLikeABrick

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Re: Suddenly getting error message: "Could not bind file server socket"
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2007, 10:15:57 pm »
A running or crashed version of the server will cause this to happen.  Make sure the server isn't already running