This is because nobody but you, at the moment, has the permission to connect to your host. When they try to join by joining your game, it will kick them because they 'failed after 4 retries'. The server will not respond to your friends. The server seems to run, and you are able to join, but something else is missing. The spaces will work fine in any text editing program.)
The minuses are there because you can't have more than one space in a row in Steam, afaik. And you can put in some different console commands which you want to be 'autoexecuted'(guys, just a note, you don't have to necessarily use this one, it's just an example :p 'sbox_playershurtplayers'-'1' //Enables PVP Damage 'hostname'-'My Garry's Mod Sandbox Server' Replace the lines with blank spaces, or press 'TAB' around 6 times to make a big space. The lines are used to make big spaces, since using blank spaces does not work in Steam. This file is located here: drive name:/Program Files(x86)/yourfilepath/blah/steamcmd/garrysmod/cfgĪn example of a server.cfg file would look like this:
This file is used to set the Sandbox limits, and to set all console commands that are getting automatically executed when the server is booting up. Now, we have to configure it, to make it fully work, and to keep things organized.įirst thing you should do, is to configure the server.cfg file.
