Write this down, as it will only be displayed once.
When the server starts for the first time, it will display an administrator username and password for you. The complete name of the icon depends on which version you downloaded. Double-click the "Teamspeak" server application icon. To allow you to make chages to the config files and login as superadmin add tcp port 14534.Extract the zipped TeamSpeak file, then open the enclosed TeamSpeak server folder. To allow WAN access set a port forward rule from your external ip address to the ip address of your teamspeak server on tcp port or 8767. to get others to join be sure to give them your public ip address opposed to the ip address you used while connecting yourself. Select “Anonymous” as we are not using Registered users.Īll thats left to do is get others to join and chat. Once installed click “connection”, then right click servers and select “add server” and name the serverĮnter a “Nickname” for yourself, this will be displayed as your name to others.
Logout of the configuration windows and install the client software (next, next finish) I will be using the windows client. You will then be given a large list of settings where you can make chages to the server.įor now leave everything as it is but make sure to enter a password for now lets enter “steamspeak” Once inside the configuration window click “servers” and “select” your teamspeak server. This screen will appear, click “SuperAdmin Login” and enter your details, you cannot login using normal admin details here. To view the server admin page open a web browser (use a GUI based OS for this as the menu system is quite detailed) and type you will need them to manage your teamspeak server. You will see the following screen, take note of the admin and superadmin passwords. Now that the service is running new files have been created in the same directory as teamspeak2-server_startscript, stop the service and view the file server.log Navigate into the directory and start the service. We will now change the owner of the directory and its contents. Now that we have a new account created lets move the “tss2_rc2” directory into teamspeaks home directory. Lets start off by setting up the server (being installed on CentOS)ĭownload the software from the Website onto your Linux boxĪt this point we will stop and create a new user, this user will be the owner of the teamspeak process, we do this to improve security and the process cannot be started by root.# (portforwarding was covered in my last post)
I’m going to assume you have a Linux box at your disposal with root privileges and you know how to use portforward rules. Thats 65 Euro for one year.So, lets try and save you that money by building your very own teamspeak server. One solution is to rent your own private teamspeak server, look at the below screen shot of a bill for a year of teamspeak hosting from. and the delay is too high for the purpose of a conversation or the voip service runs without a server and the voip information is transmitted over the same session as the game data itself, normally these services don’t operated reliable as the voip traffic is secondary to the packets used to communicate game data. This is normally caused by one of two things, either the server hosting the voip service is in the U.S. From my expierence the quality of free voip services is normally quite poor, either it suffers from lag or the quality of the signal being received is inaudible. This week I found myself setting up a Voip server so that in the future myself and my friends can talk while playing games without running into trouble with lag.