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This fixed my problem with "please login as administrator and try again" after I installed the latest updates on Win7.  Thank you for this fix, and a +1 for your reputation.  I hope Microsoft hasn't just done to BF1942 what the Gamespy shutdown almost did.

Thank you.  Not trying to be a pain, but for some reason I seem to draw TKers.  It could just be that I tend to stay on the servers fairly late in the night when there are only a few other players and the disruptive ones get braver; or maybe it's my breath .

I saw him too, and had no problems with him either today.  It was Stalingrad, though, so maybe it was just a lack of planes to tempt him .

   I can verify that it was just "Magoo," and not "Mr Magoo."  Thanks for the replies, everyone.

I ran into him yesterday at Kbely Airfield on Moongamers of all places.  I sniped him long-range before I even realized who it was (he was on the enemy team this time).  I didn't notice whether he was TKing there (# 1 in my rules for recognizing him above), but I think friendly fire is off there anyway.  He was on as "cptkerk" (# 2), and did reply with an abbreviated curse (# 3) when I said hi after shooting him.

Sounds like a good rule.  Could it please be added to the official list of server rules at http://team-simple.org/rules?

I just felt like the kick was adding insult to injury after everything that was going on, including being TKed bringing in the flag during a CTF game.  I would have appreciated being talked to instead of kicked right away, especially when what I was accused of (team-stacking) is not even mentioned in the Server Rules.

These are turning out to be pretty good rules for spotting him.  I saw he just got banned over at aX under the name "cptkerk" (2).  The guy who reported him (not me ) complained about TKs (1) and other behavior, and posted screen shots of him cursing at people (3).

If that is so, then a good strategy to use to fire across the river with impunity is just to have a teammate or two stand next to your tank during your barrage.

For anyone who doesn't feel comfortable patching/modifying their BF1942.EXE file, there is another way to fix this problem.  You can edit your HOSTS file so that when BF1942 tries to connect to the old server browser at master.gamespy.com it will be directed instead to the new site.  To do this just edit the file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, and add the following line to the end of the file:

109.71.69.254 master.gamespy.com

You would do this on each Windows computer you use to play BF1942.  If you happen to run your own DNS server (if you don't know what that is then you almost certainly don't), you can add an entry for the above, and only have to do it once if your computers already use your DNS server.

That should be all the information you need to get it going, but for those unfamiliar with DNS and/or interested in the technical details, every computer on the Internet has at least one address, which is a series of four numbers 1-254 separated by dots, e.g. 109.71.69.254.  Normally we address these machines by their text names, i.e. master.gamespy.com, so there exist DNS servers (most Internet service providers have at least one available) that translate that name into the proper number.

So normally what would happen when we wanted to find an on-line game was that BF1942 had to connect to the server browser, master.gamespy.com, so it needed to query the DNS server the computer uses and get the numeric address to use to connect to that server.  Well, that server no longer exists, so DNS doesn't return an address for it, so BF1942 can't get a list of servers.  This makes the game appear to freeze.

To fix this someone has set up a replacement server browser at the address 109.71.69.254.  I assume they just weren't allowed to use the name master.gamespy.com, so the remaining problem for each BF1942 player is to get BF1942, which is looking for master.gamespy.com, to look instead for 109.71.69.254.  That is what the GameSpy patch does, although I'm not sure how they went about it.  The alternate method I'm describing doesn't modify BF1942.  Instead it adds an entry to the system HOSTS file.  The HOSTS file comes from the Unix and Linux file /etc/hosts, which has the same purpose as DNS, to translate text names for computers into numeric network addresses.  The way this works on both Linux and Windows systems is that when a network address needs to be translated, the operating system first looks for the entry in the hosts file; if it doesn't find it there it queries DNS (which is actually the preferred way to resolve the name).  Since DNS no longer has an entry for master.gamespy.com, though, putting one into our hosts file works around this problem.

It's been my experience that troublemakers are usually dealt with on the USA server.  However, both times I've made a complaint about rule-breakers on the FRA servers I didn't even get a reply.  So if you want to get away with a bunch of merde I'd say the FRA servers are the way to go.

A question for the rules people: how far do the bases extend on Market Garden?  Is anywhere north of the river considered the Axis main base?  For that matter how far does the Allied base extend?  Does it also include the roads that pass it on both the east and west sides?  Does it end at the top of the hills above the church?