2 - Publication

Port Forwarding

In your favourite web browser, clear the URL in the address bar and type 192.168.1.1 then press enter.





Enter your router's username and password. If you do not know this you may need to consult your broadband host. Or you can try the following:

Username: admin - Password: admin

Username: admin - Password: password

Username: admin - Password: password123



Once you have logged in successfully, you need to find the port forwarding page. This can vary for every router so you may have to look around a bit. Once you find the port forwarding page, you can continue. If you are still having trouble finding it, just do a google search.





You need to forward the following ports:

Port: 27015 - Protocol: TCP&UDP

Port: 27005 - Protocol: TCP&UDP



Don't save yet, because we need to find your computer's internal IP address. Chances are that you are using Windows. Click start and type 'cmd' and hit enter. This will show the command prompt. Type 'ipconfig' into the command prompt and press enter. Now somewhere on this page you will find some information that shows your internal IP address. It will look like 192.168.1.xx (e.g. 192.168.1.68, 192.168.1.107). Remember that and return to your router settings page.





Find where it asks for a LAN IP address, type your IP in here. You can now save that! And if everything went well and you followed this, it would have worked perfectly! To test, have a friend try and join your server.

Optional

Hamachi

Google search for 'LogMeIn Hamachi' and download what ever version corrosponds to your computer.





Once downloaded and installed successfully, it will launch automatically and you will need to press the power button to activate Hamachi.





You can now click Network>Create a new network, on the top bar. Enter any username and password and hit done.





Now your Garry's Mod server will be visible to anyone inside these Hamachi groups. If you want a friend to join they need to download Hamachi, and click Network>Join an existing group, and enter the username and password of your group. Unless you pay, the group size is very limited. But you can make as many groups as you want. (e.g. mygroup1, mygroup2, ...)

Now, there are two ways of publicizing your server. The first is port forwarding (hard), and the seconds is Hamachi (easy). If you want to make a private server just for you and your friends, I suggest using Hamachi.Your IP can be dangerous in the wrong hands! If you want to be safe, you can use a dynamic IP address to hide your IP address. You can either use No-IP or dyndns. Your choice!