How do I host my own Mumble Server?

[Nick.Sth]

Hello. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop, and I'm pretty fed up with having to pay companies to host my Mumble server, while its something I could handle to do.

But I just don't know how to do, nor what to do.
Ive scowled the Internet for legit tutorial but nothing adds up.

How can I host my own Mumble Server?
Can somebody give me a detailed tutorial?
Or at least a link to a good one?

Cheers. Nick.

[jerome1232]

I actually host my own simple one, How many users do you have? How fast is your upload rate?

murmurd (that is the mumble server) is actually in the ubuntu repositories.

sudo apt-get install mumble-server

Mumble's faq's have some good stuff about setting your server up initially, most if it can be done from within a mumble client.

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/FAQ/English#Server

[Nick.Sth]

Hi.
It's around 1000kb/s (1mbps).
I just want to hold around like 10 slots so I presume it will be fine.
I used the command u told me, how can I open it up now?
How do I find my Address/Label/Port/IP I need to use?

[jerome1232]

It's running already, it auto starts when you install it and will auto start when you turn your computer on.

You will want to run the following command to set a few things up initially

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mumble-server

What sort of bandwidth will I need for the server?

Worst case scenario: Number of users × Number of talking users × 133,6 kbit/s. With less aggressive quality settings, it's ~60 kbit/s, and the bare minimum is 17.4kbit/s. Note that Mumble is geared towards social gaming; its quality enables people to talk naturally to each other instead of just barking short commands, so the amount of "users talking at the same time" can be somewhat higher than expected.

This means that a server with 20 players and 2 players talking at once requires 1-3 Mbit/s, depending on quality settings. In the server's .ini file, you can specify the maximum allowed bitrate for users as well as the maximum number of clients to allow.

What is the default server port for Murmur?

The default port for Murmur is UDP and TCP 64738.

Alot of the info is in that faq, how much do you know about networking?

If your mumble server is behind a router you will need to forward that port tcp and udp to the computer hosting mumble. You can goto http://www.whatismyip.com/ to figure out your ip (it will change from time to time, which is why I use dyndns to get a hostname and ddclient autoupdates my hostname with my new ip everytime my ip changes)

Somewhere I found a good guide that walks you through setting your user as the admin and such.

You will want to edit /etc/mumble-server.ini and set up a server password, read through the comments in the file to figure it out.

I'm trying to find the guide that walks you through setting your account up as the admin and such, might take me a minute.

[Nick.Sth]

how much do you know about networking?
you will need to forward that port tcp and udp to the computer hosting mumble.

I don't know too much about networking.
I guess I can manage to forward the tcp and udp, but the thing is for example in windows, I could click on internet options, and see my local ip for example 10.0.0.1 how can I see it here on ubuntu?

[jerome1232]

Right click your Connection Manger Applet, click connection information.