Another program using game ports Message

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pinkysaurusrawr

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I know this has been asked back in 2017, and I found the old threads but to be quite frank we can't figure out how to use the information in them. 

My boyfriend and I have been playing 7 Days together and recently when he tried to load the game, he got this error message: 

Starting the server failed. Probably another program is already using one of the game ports (26900/TCP,26900/UDP,26901/UDP,26902/UDP).

I apologize for our illiteracy in these topics, but none of the answers we have found have been helpful to us. He tried loading via a local file rather than a steam shortcut, but beyond that we haven't found much we've been able to try. Like the others who have had this problem, he's unable to load any games, he gets the same message. He's using a Macbook, so much of the available information relating to troubleshooting on Windows was not relevant. If anyone has any advice we'd greatly appreciate it.

 
<property name="ServerPort" value="26900"/> <!-- Port you want the server to listen on. Keep it in the ranges 26900 to 26905 or 27015 to 27020 if you want PCs on the same LAN to find it as a LAN server. -->


You can change the port it uses in the serverconfig.xml :)

 
Jugginator said:
<property name="ServerPort" value="26900"/> <!-- Port you want the server to listen on. Keep it in the ranges 26900 to 26905 or 27015 to 27020 if you want PCs on the same LAN to find it as a LAN server. -->


You can change the port it uses in the serverconfig.xml :)
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thank you!! We've tried guessing a bit what we should change the value to but it still doesn't seem to be working, the same error message pops up even when we enter a value it doesn't list. 

 
Hmmm I am not a fan of Macs so I have no idea how to check ports on one, but a little google searching showed me:

sudo lsof -i -n -P | grep TCP


Since this is using grep, I assume       | grep "TCP|UDP"     will give you both results. If not... play around with it or do them separately lol.

Unsure if that'll work or not, but worth a shot in his terminal. Can also try port forwarding the port you're using to his local network address

 
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