Help with peeps blocking kicks & bans

[500FJFelonCO]

Sorry if this has been answered before did a search and nothing showed.
I've had a couple a##holes come on the server lately and spam advertise for their own server (*****s) and I can't kick or ban them! I know I've seen something out there that does that. What contermeasures can I use? I run TW 2.3a and rcon full. Thanks

[TS]

You can use PB as it is already on the server version 1.4. You can also use HLCRcon, you can get that here I think.
There are many programs to help you in this matter.

[500FJFelonCO]

We are running PB and I know the rcon commands for banclient and kickclient. The problem is whatever they do it's blocking them from being kicked/banned. It has happened twice. The First one was some idiot named [LSG]Clan_Leader who was spamming our server for his own. If you try to kick/ban they just laugh in your face.

[ClickBouyow]

You can try this:

PB_SV_BADNAME [grace_period] [filtered_text]

You can fill up a configuration file with nothing but these types of statements if desired and then issue a PB_SV_LOAD command either manually or inside your pbsv.cfg file to have the whole list executed easily at one time. If prefered, you can also type them into the console and do a PB_SV_WRITECFG to have the whole list written, along with your other current PB settings, to the pbsv.cfg file which is automatically loaded every time PunkBuster starts.

If PB detects that a player has a name that includes the exact [filtered_text] from any BadName entry (case insensitive), then PunkBuster will send a warning message to the player that the playing name is not allowed on this server and that the player should change the name. If the name is not changed to an acceptable name within the number of seconds specified by [grace_period] for that text filter, then the player is removed from the game. Note that setting [grace_period] to 0 has the effect of immediately removing a player before any warning message has time to display.

What I do is first do /rcon PB_SV_PLIST to get the player ID# and then /rcon PB_SV_Ban <Client #> <reason>

It is hard to spoof a client number and I, too, have had problems kicking with just the name.

Here is the correct syntax:

PB_SV_Ban [name or slot #] [displayed_reason] | [optional_private_reason]


I wouldn't use clientkick or banclient. They work, but not as good as PB.

For other PB commands go here: http://www.evenbalance.com/publications/cod-ad/index.htm

[imported_Sac]

What commands are you using? It should be...

/rcon pb_sv_plist

Look for their PB client number

/rcon pb_sv_ban <pb client number>