Smoothwall & Steam

Conanius

Conanius

Conanius

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Riteo,

Just gone to install cs:s on my brothers pc from a retail dvd.

Installed ok, loaded steam, and I keep getting the error message

"Error...steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library steam.dll"

I've done some research, and this seems to stem from the smoothwall box my parents use not forwarding the ports correctly.

The ports tha need to be forwarded are:

Steam Client

* UDP 27000 to 27020 inclusive
* TCP 27020 to 27050 inclusive

Dedicated or Listen Servers

* TCP 27015 (SRCDS Rcon port)

(Steam KBase Article link - https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6776-MYXU-0480 )

Now, I have set this up on the smoothwall box, but its still not working.

I have rebooted the smoothwall and no joy, and also rebooted the pc but no joy.

I've checked using an online forwarding tool (http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/) and this says the ports are closed ... not sure if this is just the smoothwall box saying 'ey up son, not on your nelly!'

any ideas what im doing wrong here guys?
 
have you definately forwarded them to HIS ip and is his IP static or DHCP?

Did you have steam running when you ran the test? the ports will only show as open if there is an application running at the other end that is listening.
 
yep, definately forwarded to his IP, which is DHCP.

Steam wont stay open as it closes with that error message. Fair point on nothing being there to listen though. Is there an app I can use to sit there and listen to check they have forwarded properly then?
 
yeah set up a simple FTP or web server type app and set it to listen on those ports.
FTP server is probably easiest.

Tbh not loading a .dll sounds more like an application issue than a network issue. It should still open in offline mode if no internet connection is present.
 
Skidilliplop said:
yeah set up a simple FTP or web server type app and set it to listen on those ports.
FTP server is probably easiest.

Tbh not loading a .dll sounds more like an application issue than a network issue. It should still open in offline mode if no internet connection is present.
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Agreed. I can't really see this being a smoothwall issue.
 
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