Deus Ex Alpha

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 09 4:51 am**

I have a FTP server set up with all my files of my dx server and I'm trying to launch it on the server so I can somehow host a server on my router. I do not see a way that I can launch it and google isn't helping me either. Is there a way to launch it on the ftp?

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 09 9:23 am**

You can't execute an application on the FTP afaik.

Does your router run Windows?

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 09 7:35 pm**

Router runs linux as far as I know...

Posted: **Wed Jan 13, 10 10:52 pm**

Are you sure it's wise to host a DX server on your.. ROUTER? :shock:

Posted: **Wed Jan 13, 10 11:06 pm**

He might have some Core i7 router xD

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 4:32 am**

lol this is what i like about posting on alpha, what about hosting a master server on the router? those use less juice

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 2:59 pm**

Running .exes on Linux requires Wine:
http://www.winehq.org/

I think it will be very hard to install and configure Wine using FTP (configuring and installing new applications using Wine is already hard!). I don't even know if it is possible. Why don't you host a masterserver in your pc and open the required port?

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 3:58 pm**

Where am I gonna get a second computer to have running 24/7?

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 3:59 pm**

Do you even know what a router is? It's not for hosting servers...

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 4:04 pm**

It allows multiple computers n shit to go on the internet at the same time. If I messed around with custom firmware and the usb port i could get it running

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 4:05 pm**

oh and wine

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 4:41 pm**

I hope this is a joke thread

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 4:54 pm**

Good luck messing around with the firmware...

Dude if you want to have a masterserver why don't you host it in your pc and open the required port?
Having a masterserver is already pointless but having a masterserver in your router is pointless, risky, and there are 99.99% of chances it isn't going to work, you may lost your router too.

The idea is good but I doubt it's going to work.

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 5:02 pm**

MainMan wrote:I hope this is a joke thread

It actually is possible. But not just with any router. Just like you can hack a NAS to make it run other programs. But you can't hack just any NAS.

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 6:17 pm**

DxPlayer wrote:Good luck messing around with the firmware...

Dude if you want to have a masterserver why don't you host it in your pc and open the required port?
Having a masterserver is already pointless but having a masterserver in your router is pointless, risky, and there are 99.99% of chances it isn't going to work, you may lost your router too.

The idea is good but I doubt it's going to work.

Why would I want to run my computer 24/7?

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 6:27 pm**

For the same reason u want to run your router 24/7, I guess.

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 6:52 pm**

DxPlayer wrote:For the same reason u want to run your router 24/7, I guess.

.. my router runs 24/7, my PC doesn't. You shut your router down from time to time?

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 6:56 pm**

Yes

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 9:02 pm**

Now what about launching bat files over ftp?

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 10 10:45 pm**

icepick wrote:Now what about launching bat files over ftp?

first of all, you can't run Windows programs (such as Deus Ex) on other operating systems (such as Linux) unless you set up some sort of emulation, and that might be a hard thing to do

secondly, .bat is a Windows batch file, meaning executing it on other operating systems is not possible

thirdly, as far as I know, you can't execute anything over the file transfer protocol (ftp)

fourthly, unless your router was built upon some PC or even a server, it is most likely greatly underpowered (too slow) to run a game server properly

Posted: **Sun Mar 07, 10 3:04 am**

I'm talking about ms now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_routers#WRT350N
What is the .bat equivalent (if there even is one) of linux?

Posted: **Sun Mar 07, 10 4:27 pm**

icepick wrote:What is the .bat equivalent (if there even is one) of linux?

bash scripts, usually with extension ".sh"

Posted: **Sun Mar 07, 10 8:14 pm**

Alex wrote:
MainMan wrote:I hope this is a joke thread

It actually is possible. But not just with any router. Just like you can hack a NAS to make it run other programs. But you can't hack just any NAS.

My point is not whether it's possible or not - in the same way, it'd be possible to install Crysis on my old Windows 95 computer. In both cases however, the point of the exercise is at best questionable

Deus Ex Alpha

Can't launch DeusEx.exe from ftp

Can't launch DeusEx.exe from ftp