Strange Admin Controls?
 

The co-leader of my clan recently gave me the ability to log in to our main server as an admin in case one of the leaders wasn't there. I can log in fine and I can look at rcon status and everything, but when I change maps, I'm the only one who changes to the new map. What's even stranger is there is no way to choose teams or pick weapons. There's no spectator so I can run around the map like usual but there are no weapons, no score at the top right of the screen. My ping turns to 0 like the server rerouted to my computer. If I manage to crater, the scrren fades to black and goes to the failure/success screen that you see in the single player. I can disconnect and reconnect and the server is on the original map. What is going on?

You have to make sure you type "rcon" before every command. Sounds like you just typed something like "Gamemap obj/obj_team2" in your console.. in which case your computer loads the map as if to play single player.

You need to sure you always type in the following format:

rcon password COMMAND variable

So if your rcon PW was "jujubee" then to change maps it will look like:

rcon jujubee gamemap obj/obj_team2

you have to include the rcon password everytime? even when you've already typed "set rconpassword jujubee"?

No, I was just using that as the typical example of how the commands are run. You can set the password as you mentioned.. or you can create an rcon.cfg file to handle it automatically for you as seen here:

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But you do still have to proceed every command with "rcon". If you forget that (as I suspect the original poster was doing) then the game assumes you're running the command locally.

When you first log on to the server, just type in the console :

rconpassword xxx

You won't need to type the password every time, but rcon before every command for sure.

Also, check out this thread - http://www.alliedassault.com/phpBB2/vie ... p?t=144343

And just a note - you only need to type 'map'. (rcon map obj/obj_team1)