Help, i banned my brother

[nubbin 0]

Playing around with my Brother (we play Co-op with each other only) and I accidentally "kicked" him. Now he cannot log back into my server.

I searched through this forumn and found in one spot a reference that said to look in my user folder for a file called banned (or somthing to that effect). I have searched through every single file in my ofp folder and I cannot find anything that remotely resembles a banned ip listing file.

What the heck do I have to do to get my bro to connect to me again. I thought the ban might go away with the passage of time, but its been 2 weeks since I did it. We've been using him as the host recently but he doens't have half the missions and his computer is a lot slower. So I need to figure out how to fix this (why did the kick button have to be where it is...). I'd be super appreciative of any help!!!! (My Bro will be even moreso)

[theavonlady 2]

From OFP's dedicated server admin document:

Quote[/b] ]Banning

To ban a user you have to know their unique online ID (called Player ID). This can be checked in the players overview screen ('P' key) during the game, or with the #userlist command. To ban a user you have to add their Player ID to file ban.txt residing in the main OFP directory. If there is no such file there, create a new one. The format of ban.txt is a plain ASCII text list of decimal Player IDs delimited with space, tabulator or end-of-line characters.

[nubbin 0]

Thanks Avon,

Hmm, that doesn't make sense - I dont' have this file and I didn't create it. So why can't he connect to me anymore - this can't be coincidence that I kicked him and now he cannot connect anymore?

BTW, I am not running a dedicated server, I am just hosting normally, perhaps this is why? Maybe its embedded somewhere else?

[theavonlady 2]

BTW, I am not running a dedicated server, I am just hosting normally, perhaps this is why?  Maybe its embedded somewhere else?

May I suggest using Windows' File Find utility to search your disk drive(s) for file "ban.txt".

[nubbin 0]

Avon,

thanks again for your response. You are amazingly helpful in this community. Searching for that document was the first thing I did (after i searched this forum for a solution). Once I found out the the name of the file was supposed to be I searched my entire hard drive, then I searched for just ban - still nothing. The last time we tried playing he was actually able to see my server, then he clicked on it to join and it told him "unable to connect" then he got booted. So I am still convinced its somehting within OFP because he can join me in other games.

[mr. Duck 0]

You could always try the hard way of re-installing flashpoint (don't forget to backup your missions and addons ofcourse). If anything else fails.

[MSpencer 0]

Or delete the user profiles. It's mostly in there.

[blackdog~ 0]

Are you both using the same copy of OFP? If so, I'd reinstall it on the main computer you were using it on, and get a new copy for the other one. FADE may have banned him.

[nubbin 0]

No, we each have our own versions of OFP. But I will try deleting my user profile. I have to wait until monday to test it out. Thats our night for playing usually.