Can't seem to host Workshop MP Mission?

[Mettius 1]

Hello Folks,

 

I'm trying to host a mission downloaded from the workshop on my new dedicated Linux server (my server running OpenSuSE Leap 42.3).

However, I can't seem to get it to appear on the server.

 

I downloaded the mission via steamcmd:

workshop_download_item 107410 230239528

This resulted in the directory:

/home/steam/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/107410/230239528

with a single file in it:

940560531083087031_legacy.bin

I coped this into my:

/home/steam/Steam/arma3/mpmissions

But when I fire up the server. I only see the vanilla missions as options.

I tried renaming this to a .pbo extension, but no joy.

 

On my windows box I subscribed to the mission via. steam workshop, and it shows up fine.

 

Any help please?  (I've had the same problem with other missions I've tried to download, including: 761149851 and 489171976.)  I can't get any of them to work.

[Mettius 1]

I'm still struggling with this. All the missions I've downloaded so far from the workshop are xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_legacy.bin

I have nothing in my class missions in the server.cfg file (which is according to the documentation supposed to allow selection of all missions).

 

Anyone else hosting workshop missions on their Linux arma3 server?  Help. :)

[Dedmen 2724]

you have to rename the legacy bin files to the proper
missionname.terrainname.pbo filename to make them work.
they are just pbo files with "wrong" name.

[Mettius 1]

Thanks Dedmen,

 

Finally starting to get somewhere with this.  :)

Is there a particular filenaming scheme that should be used?

 

For example: For workshop item 761149851

The download is

943936403083714865_legacy.bin

If I rename that to:

943936403083714865_legacy.altis.pbo

I get an dialog "Picture main.jpg not found" when I join the server.

I get to the role assignment screen. I select a role and continue.

The mission download takes a very long time then it dumps be back to the main mission select screen.

 

Renaming the file to:

943936403083714865legacy.altis.pbo

Same result.

renamed again to:

mphelotraining.altis.pbo

Same result.

 

Also, in all the above cases when I'm on the mission selection screen (from my windows client) the mission appears in the Altis list, but it is called whatever the filename is. Additionally it doesn't show the image or description of the mission (both are blank).

 

To test that the problem wasn't with a broken mission, from my windows client (gaming machine) I subscribed to the mission in Steam. I then hosted a LAN server. On the create game screen I see the description, the image, etc.  Also, the mission is listed under Altis as "Helicopter training MP". Lauching it, everything works fine.

 

Any idea what I'm doing wrong on the linux server?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dedmen 2724]

On 1/26/2019 at 6:17 AM, Mettius said:

I get an dialog "Picture main.jpg not found" when I join the server.

You won't be able to fix that. Images are not transferred when you retrieve the mission list from a server.