Yamtaggler

Hamachi is still around? Holy moly, I remember using that like 10 years ago to try and play LAN games over the internet with friends. Emphasis on try, lol.

I got into my router's settings from a browser and while the guide I've been following said to specifically set the ports to 42420-42420 the only IP address I interacted with was the internal IP address for the laptop I'm running the server on. I seem to have closed the guide I used to figure out how to set up the port forwarding rule, but I think I just put a * in the slot for external IP. The interesting part is that I'm able to join the server on my computer no problem using the Internal IP, but the IP I get from searching it up doesn't work for my friend on a different network. I was going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out how to set a Static IP but after having to reset my router I think I'm gonna call it a night lol.

Hmm, that's a snag alright. I have a couple of questions: 1) I have already run the sudo server start and now it works without sudo. Do I need to do something special to fix it or is it OK as long as I don't run it with sudo again? 2) I'm assuming I should take the new user off of the sudo list, so does that mean the above commands should be run from the base user 3) Do you have any recommendations for places to help a new linux user learn some of this stuff Regardless, thanks for letting me know! I'm still trying to figure out how to get other people onto my server, but it's nice to catch these kinds of things early.

I fixed it! For anyone looking in the future, I just had to use $ sudo server/server.sh start and that got it running! I did have to get the new user I added for the VS server to the sudolist or whatever it's called so it could use sudo, but that's something you can google pretty easy. Also, if (like me) you don't know which IP address to put in client side, it's the Internal IP you used to do port forwarding. EDIT: this worked for me but not for anyone trying to join. Not Ideal!

So, perhaps unwisely, I have decided to try and get a dedicated vintage story running on my laptop. I have have also recently decided to dip my toes into the Linux Ubuntu operating system for the very first time, which has led me to a soulcrushing fun afternoon of learning. I've been following the guide on the wiki relatively successfully up until this point, where I try $ server/server.sh start after which I receive the message fatal! cannot create new /var/vintagestory/data! aborting! I think it has something to do with permissions for the folder it's in, but I'll be honest gang I don't know what I'm doing here. Any help would be deeply appreciated, thanks in advance!