Usage Guidelines – Ubuntu 18.04 with Counter-Strike 1.6 Game Server

Counter-Strike 1.6 Game Server

Ubuntu 18.04

How to create and connect to Ubuntu 18.04 with Counter-Strike 1.6 Game Server on Azure VP

  1. To start the server, you just need to start the VM through Azure Portal.
  2. To configure the server, you should connect to the VM and call the game console. To connect, you need PuTTy application to connect via ssh. You can download it at the following link – Download.
  3. Run Putty, enter the VM address in the “Host” field, and click “Open” to connect.
  1. In the opened console it is necessary to enter a username and password that were specified while creating the virtual machine.
  1. To configure the server, you should to change the user to csserver and go to the server directory:

> sudo su

> su csserver

> cd /home/csserver

The list of commands can be found at the following link (section “Basic usage”):

Counter-Strike: Source
  1. To connect to the server, start the “Counter Strike: Source” game on your PC, open the console with the “~” key on your keyboard, write connect %vm_adress% and press “Enter” to connect. For example: connect 127.0.0.1

Server update

If you were unable to connect to the server, you should update the server. To do this, connect to the VM through PuTTY and do the following:

> sudo su

> su csserver (If you haven’t run this command before)
        > /home/csserver

> ./csserver update