TDS STILL not updating on Auto

thats the place i was refering to, as i was following this thread, where i download the radius file, which i did. and it dl ok, but update still gos to server 2 then disconnects. the last update i have was 01-15-05. is there any plan B ?

 

pilli, all i saw was the same radius file i downloaded yesterday. not sure where the update was. opened tds-3 clicked on updates, allowed it through my firewall (normal) got to server 2 and disconnected. i can only assume there is no other way to get updates?

 

Hi jargonise, It appears that there is still something wrong with your firewall or connection settings somewhere.
Can you manually DL the file from the DCS site and put it in your main TDS3 folder, when doing this you should be prompted to allow the new file to overwrite the old one and all should be well after reloading TDS3.
make sure the the file name in the TDS3 folder is called Radius.TD3 and is 2,023,142 bytes in size. (right click the file to see it's properties)

Thanks. Pilli

 

hi pilli, redownloaded radius from the link you gave, saved it, windows ask if i wanted to overwrite clicked yes. opened tds clicked on update, same thing happened went from server 1 to 2 then nothing. in the open tds it said data base already up to date transfer aborted. it's not my firewall, been using outpost for a long time, it's not sp2 no problems with that, it does connect, something is telling tds the database is already updated. i think it has to do with server 2, but with pcs i'm about as smart as a bag of hammers. thanks for your time, guess the only other thing left is to uninstall and clean out all the files and redownload tds-3. don't see another option now.

 

I was again unable to do auto or manual update today. Update worked after I went to Update The TDS-3 RADIUS Database and grabbed the latest update.cfg. The current working update.cfg looks like:

;Radius.TD3 Database Update Sites
;See http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=update for latest server list
http://www.toonbox.de/tds/radius.td3
ftp://ftp.pc-techie.info/tds/radius.td3
http://tds.morgud.com/radius.td3
http://radius.turvamies.com/radius.td3
http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/radius.td3
http://diamondcs.fileburst.com/radius.td3

The previous looked like:

;Radius.TD3 Database Update Sites
;See http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=update for latest server list
ftp://ftp.pc-techie.info/tds/radius.td3
http://radius.turvamies.com/radius.td3
http://www.toonbox.de/tds/radius.td3
http://tds.morgud.com/radius.td3
http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/radius.td3
http://diamondcs.fileburst.com/radius.td3

As update.cfg seems to be changed often, you may have to do a page refresh to get the latest. I am using the latest OP (Pro) as well.

Nick

 

this is confusing to me. in the past 3 weeks, have downloaded four radius files, the last one from pc-techie.info . larger file. to my desktop, draged it into the radius file, it repalced the old one i downloaded yesterday. opened tds and now it say lastest update is 01-29-05 , have to wait a few days i guess to see if it works. but i'm wondering how often they change this file or how often must i redownload it and go through all this again?

 

I have had go after the latest update.cfg more times in the past few weeks than in the previous 2+ years. But it seems to work. Seems to coincide with installing the latest OP, but I doubt that is the cause.

Nick

 

Not sure this will help but in my tiny personal installation note to self, I made the following note:

QUOTE:
1. The original update.cfg file within the TDS-3 installer is corrupt. Cut and paste update.cfg file dated 4/8/2003 into the \TDS-3 directory prior to attempting database updates.

2. Install the keyfile tds.kf into the \TDS-3 directory

3. Install dcsfps.dll file into the \TDS-3 directory
:UNQUOTE

I do not recall the dates/time/cirumstances reached but perhaps someone else can chime in and remark on the dcsfps.dll file. I suspect this file still remains an issue. For myself, each time I re-install TDS, I use a WinZip self-extractor to extract all three of these files simultaneously into the \TDS-3 directory, reboot and go to town with TDS as desired.

Hope these .02 centavos helps.

 

Hmm, I am not sure what is going on here, so we will have to await a DCS reply. Hopefully they can throw some light on any possble problems either with the update process or possbly an OutPost issue.

Pilli