TeamSpeak 3¶
With the existence of Discord, it seems like TeamSpeak 3 is losing it's popularity but for the sake of the server's utility, we'll still make a TeamSpeak 3 server.
Installation¶
Firstly, we need to make a new user.
sudo adduser --disabled-login teamspeak
sudo -iu teamspeak
We can now download the newest version of TeamSpeak 3 Server and extract it.
mkdir Downloads && cd Downloads
wget http://dl.4players.de/ts/releases/3.3.0/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.3.0.tar.bz2
tar xvf teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.3.0.tar.bz2
Warning
Keep in mind that the link above may be outdated.
Before starting the server, we need to accept TeamSpeak 3's license agreement.
touch .ts3server_license_accepted
Auto-starting¶
Now, we need to make a systemctl service so the server can run as a service and autostart with the server, this should be done in a sudoer user account. Create the daemon with:
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/teamspeak.service
And in the text editor, paste the following and save.
[Unit]
Description=TeamSpeak 3 Server
After=network.target
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/teamspeak/
User=teamspeak
Group=teamspeak
Type=forking
ExecStart=/home/teamspeak/ts3server_startscript.sh start inifile=ts3server.ini
ExecStop=/home/teamspeak/ts3server_startscript.sh stop
PIDFile=/home/teamspeak/ts3server.pid
RestartSec=15
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
We can now reload systemctl and start the service.
sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable teamspeak.service
sudo systemctl start teamspeak.service
The server is now up and running but before we continue, we need to set up some things.
Configuration¶
We can get our server's privilege key so we can turn ourselves as the server admin.
cat /home/teamspeak/logs/ts3server_*
You'll receive an output similar to this one:
--------------------------------------------------------
ServerAdmin privilege key created, please use the line below
token=****************************************
--------------------------------------------------------
Lastly, let's not forget to add firewall rules to accept TeamSpeak 3 connections.
sudo ufw allow 9987/udp
sudo ufw allow 30033/tcp
sudo ufw allow 10011/tcp
Finally, once you connect to your server, you'll be prompted to add the privilege key, enter it to become server admin and change any server configuration from within your client.