Teamspeak 3 and Ubuntu Server

So the clan wanted a TS3 server and given that I have a server set up at home I SSH’d into it and the magic began.

To Install TS3 on Ubuntu Server you will need:

The latest version of TS3 server edition for your architecture (ie x86 or amd64) here.

thats about it 🙂

I performed the install as root, but if you are not root, you will need to sudo most of these commands.

first download the package. I downloaded it to /home/myuser/downloads using wget:

wget http://teamspeak.gameserver.gamed.de/ts3/releases/3.0.1/teamspeak3-server_linux-x86-3.0.1.tar.gz

Dont forget to check for the latest version. The above link may have changed!

Extract the archive.
Create the directory ts3 in /opt

mkdir /opt/ts3

move the contents of the extracted directory to /opt/ts3

mv /home/myuser/downloads/teamspeak3-server_linux-x86/* /opt/ts3/

Now we need a user, with no login privileges, for the Teamspeak service to run as.

 adduser --disabled-login teamspeak

The directory teamspeak will need be given to the user teamspeak in order to run

chown -R teamspeak /opt/ts3

In order to let us use the command

service teamspeak start

we need an init script.

Go to /etc/init.d and create the file there.

nano teamspeak

paste the below code into it

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          teamspeak
# Required-Start:    networking
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: TeamSpeak Server Daemon
# Description:       Starts/Stops/Restarts the TeamSpeak Server Daemon
### END INIT INFO

set -e

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="TeamSpeak Server"
NAME=teamspeak
USER=teamspeak
DIR=/opt/ts3
DAEMON=$DIR/ts3server_startscript.sh
#PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

cd $DIR
sudo -u teamspeak ./ts3server_startscript.sh $1

save and exit

The permissions for that file now need to be changed

 chmod 755 /etc/init.d/teamspeak

test it out:

service start teamspeak

this will list your login and token (you need these) don’t worry too much about it if you close that screen, you can find that info in the logs.

to make the service run at boot

update-rc.d teamspeak defaults

FINALLY: you will need to open the ports on your firewall/router to allow outside traffice to speak to your server.

To find out which ports TS is running on use

 nestat -lnp | grep ts3

you should get something like this:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:30033           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      31739/ts3server_lin
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10011           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      31739/ts3server_lin
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:9987            0.0.0.0:*                           31739/ts3server_lin

So I have forwarded tcp ports 30033 and 10011 and udp port 9987 to the internal LAN IP of my server.

HEY PRESTO!

TS3 is now up and running 🙂

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