Hurtz72

So if you don't write the offenders name in the ban reason you have no way to know who to unban. It doesn't put their name in the ban list only IP and GUID. If someone ban appeals it's easier to get the player ID then their GUID. You can't ask people for their IP and normally it's dynamic anyway. Until I starting using RCON on the arma 3 server, which was only a couple days ago I didn't know that arma 3 had GUID's just PID's. Is one Hex and the other decimal or something?

I moved all of the PID's that were in bans.txt over to the ban.txt and rcon doesn't show them. I hit "get bans" and it shows the new ones created with RCON and thats it. Also ban.txt used the PID 7656119xxxxxx and rcon bans by GUID that looks like 81fc9a2b6cee3823a86948fccbed06999. This is going to make it difficult to manage if you ban someone and they appeal how will you know which ban to remove if all they know is the PID, can you convert or something? It would be nice if this tool used the PID and not GUID's or maybe there is something I'm missing.

Ok well that explains my problem. Working better now that I have different bepaths. Is there any way to share a bans.txt and/or ban.txt between the server instances? Anyone try using hardlinks?

Issue is resolved, the battleye folder I created had a space in it and so does the default if you have it in "program files". Thanks to cortez here. http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?160118-EPM-RCon-Tool-(Beta)-Changelog-and-Information/page3

Cortez .. thanks man. I changed the default path from -BEpath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\BattlEye. Moved the battleye folder to C:\Arma3_Battleye, and updated the bepath to C:\Arma3_Battleye and it's now working. Who would have thought the default path that battleye gets installed to doesn't work if it has spaces. Thanks again man. So I should be able to point all of my instances to this folder? They will then share the ban.txt and update at the same time? EDIT ... so it seems to create a banS.txt file and won't use my ban.txt. So you have to manage two of them? One for in game bans and another for rcon bans or will it now send all bans to bans.txt?

I'll send you my beserver.cfg file now. The filename is not changing but the A3 console says Battleye server: Initialized (v1.179)

I have asked for help in another couple of threads but still not have been provided with a solution to a problem setting up RCON on out ARMA3 servers. I have several server instances running but to simplify I am attempting to get server 1 working with RCON first as it's installed in the steamapps directory and gets steam updates directly. I'm using Firedaemon to start server Here are the parameters I am using to start server 1 -cpuCount=4 -exThreads=7 -profiles=Users -BEpath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\BattlEye -name=XXX -config=server1.cfg -netlog -steamPort=8766 -steamQueryport=27026 -port=2502 -maxplayers=50 Note that the server works fine and is up and running, players can connect so I have no issues there. When I try to connect using RCON ( Battlewarden and EPM) I get a message that I cannot connect. I'm connecting from the local host using 127.0.0.1 and the port of 2502. I've used RCON on this server before for DAYZ and ARMA2 but am unable to get it working for ARMA3. Troubleshooting done so far - Started up server using a shortcut with same startup parameters to eliminate a firedaemon / Interactive services detection window issue. - renamed be.cfg to beserver.cfg - copied the ban.txt to the battleye folder - entered a password in beserver.cfg which is the rcon password - disabled the local firewall to rule that out, network firewall should not be an issue where clients can connect on 2502 and I'm testing right from the server. - added the -BEpath= as seen above - confirmed that server1.cfg has batteye=1 entry and it's not commented out I don't know what else to try, help please.

-bepath= yes sorry forgot the - above It doesn't work remotely or from right on the server using 127.0.0.1

The BEServer.cfg is located in the Battleye folder in the root of the arma3 directory Tried adding bepath=c:\Server2\ARMA3\Battleye in my startup line in firedaemon Yes I have 'battleye' spelled correctly in the server.cfg file Still not working ... any other suggestions?

I cannot get any RCON tools to work on my ARMA 3 Servers. I change the Rconpassword in the be.cfg file tried renaming be.cfg to BEServer.cfg Server.cfg has battleeye=1 Added host firewall rule to allow the exe through the local firewall (Windows Server 2008 R2) Tried to connect using loopback address and proper port from directly on the server ( Should eliminate firewall problem ) I keep getting "Could not connect to server" Any suggestions?

For some reason I cannot make this work, or any other RCON tool on my ARMA 3 Servers. I change the Rconpassword in the be.cfg file tried renaming be.cfg to BEServer.cfg Server.cfg has battleeye=1 Added host firewall rule to allow the exe through the local firewall (Windows Server 2008 R2) Tried to connect using loopback address and proper port from directly on the server ( Should eliminate firewall problem ) I keep getting "Could not connect to server" Any suggestions?