We run a Demo as well as S2, we have an idiot who manages to join our demo server with no name at all, thus making it impossible to kick or ban him/her, I didn't know that you could play without a name, before anyone says stick to S2, we use this demo to try and attract people to S2.

Wierd, do you have a replay, screenshot, anything? How about logfiles. If you have logging turned enabled on your host, go look in the deb.log file and you could see the person's name probably.

This could be a possible exploit of the new character/language support, and maybe there is one or more characters that are 'empty' and just don't show anything.

Thanks for that Tweak, no screeny but will get one, as for logs I'll go look and see if anything is there. We really don't want this in S2 do we.

ded.log

LFS DEDICATED HOST : 0.5Q
timer resolution 1 ms
read config
get command line
load bans
load font
create english file
kb : Latin 1
initialisations
tables
init controllers
default light map
load objects
start intro
Blackwood
end of initialisation

Well the best thing would be to have a replay.

But if you know the person might be back, prepare

For your server, make sure the 'Log Messages' setting is enabled. I believe you have to create a blank cfg.txt file (if you do not already have one), and put this line in it:

Log Messages 1

You will have a log of all the messages in the deb.log file for only the start and end of one LFS session (in other words, if you restart the host, it will clear the logged messages). So be careful.

Ok I'll give that a go, also noticed the host file shows all who are playing with their name, like this: conn=Punchy, conn=racername and so on in real time.

Ok got some screenies, and the host file which shows no name, the screenies show him in a plum coloured car everybody else has bames but him and the race position and connection list show him with no name.

Host file:

trackcfg=BL2R
cars=100000000000000000
qual=0
laps=5
conn=host
conn=Jackz
conn=^7[^4T^7B^1F^7] EESA
conn=^3masa_mäsa ^7S^4V^1K^3
conn=Paskudek
conn=^5^0GT2^7DADSTER(fr)
conn=Petr
conn=^0[^4T^7B^1F^0]^3Monty
conn=^3Poke^4[SWE]
conn=^1Ivek ^7CRO
conn=^4FBUT ^1D^7emo^1n
conn= <-----this is him

These are the screenies i managed to get.

http://www.gmcguire.dsl.pipex.com/noname.jpg

http://www.gmcguire.dsl.pipex.com/noname1.jpg

http://www.gmcguire.dsl.pipex.com/noname2.jpg

http://www.gmcguire.dsl.pipex.com/noname3.jpg