Starting your own IRC-server

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Who and why?
What do you need?
Setting up a Syris server
Starting the server

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Who and why?

When you have a fast internet connection and a few interesting files, you can start your own IRC server.  On a lot of IRC channels you will get special privileges when you start a server.  Very often you'll get access to a server where you can download the latest files and you will get into the priority queue when you download something on another server on that channel.

What do you need?

Setting up your own IRC server is very easy, all you need is a fast and stable internet connection and a modified version of Mirc.  Mirc itself has some built in server features but you can download adaptations of the basic Mirc program with easy to use and more advanced server abilities.
Polaris: http://www.polaris-central.com
Syris: http://members.shaw.ca/abaldron/main.html
Invision: http://invision.lebyte.com

Setting up a Syris server

In this tutorial I will focus on how to configure a Fileserver with the Syris script for Mirc.
Start Syris and select 'Syris IRC | Script Settings | General' and the 'General Settings' window should appear.
Select 'Min/Max CPS' in the list on the left.  You can now set a maximum and minimum speed (CPS) for the download.  When someone download speed drops beneath the minimum speed, his download will stop, this will slow users from taking up your send slots.  When you set a maximum download speed, you can save some bandwidth for yourself.
Now select 'Script Colors' in the list box on the left of the window.  Here you can choose the colors that will be used in the advertisement for your server.
When you don't want people to leave the channel when they are downloading something from your server, you can enable the 'DCC Watch'.  Click on 'DCC watch' on the left of the window and check the 'Enabled' box.
You can select the style of the advertisement by clicking on 'Script Style' in the list box on the left and selecting 'New Age' or 'Original'.
Once you have set all the options click the 'Apply' button.
Select 'Syris IRC | Script Settings | File Server' and click on the 'General' tab.  All the settings are straightforward, the 'Note', 'Serving' and 'New eps' texts will appear in the advertisement of your server.

Syris gives you the ability to run a server with up to five trigger.  Each trigger gives the user access to a directory and all subdirectories of that directory on your computer.  If you want to offer episodes of more than one series you could use a different trigger for each series.
You have to add at least on trigger and a root directory if you want to run a server.

The welcome file is a text file with the welcome text that you would like to appear when a user visits your server.  You use this text to request a few files or to give users additional information about your server.
With these settings, the advertisement for the server will look like this:

Starting the server

When you have created a server with at least one trigger, you are ready to start the server.  To start the server, you have to connect to the IRC network and join the channels were you would like the advertisement to appear.  You can select the channels were you want your advertisement to appear in the 'File Server Settings' window.
When you have checked the 'Enable on start' box, the server will automatically start running when you join a channel.  When you haven't checked that box, you can manually star the server, by right clicking in a channel and selecting 'Advertisements | File server | Start'.
You can stop the server by selecting 'Stop' or show the advertisement by selecting 'Say'.  If you don't want that your advertisements appear, select 'Silent' in the menu.
The image below shows you how to start the advertisements for your File server.

This tutorial only shows you how to set up a basic server.  Experiment a bit and discover the other functions of the Syris File Server.

This page was last updated 2003-02-17.

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