Configurations, Connecting and idling !!

Admin of ZNC

In case you're admin of the ZNC either by installing it yourself as in the first post or you're the admin on the server you got with ZNC installed on it then you may come to chance to creating users for yourself or others. The admin account has privileges to do and customize ZNC as you wish. Even creating another admin accounts !!

I'll show how to create another non-admin user for you or others to use to connect and idle on different irc servers. I must mention that I don't like connecting to the servers using the admin account so this is important to me since I probably always make a user for myself to use it on irc connection. Call it paranoia

Go to any browser and in the address bar type the ZNC address and port (it might be domain name). According to installation in the first post, my address was locally on

https://192.168.222.25:11222

Note the https which I selected in the installation process. For ready installed ZNC on server/seedbox, this would be already handed to you. You might face a problem when opening the page the first time since the ssl certification is self registered. It's OK, proceed by making exception or proceeding choice depending on your browser.

Once you're in, type the admin account details and login

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Go for "Manage Users"

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Create the user name and its password. Here I will do user1

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Select its settings accordingly to your choice. Some thing like Maximum networks to connect and Join tries.

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Now save these settings. Then go to "Global Settings"

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On Binding hosts type the same ip address link or the domain name

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Save settings and that's it !!!. You created a user !!

User of ZNC

Go to the ZNC url and login using your user details

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Go for "Your Settings"

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Add a network

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At this point we are about to configure only one network. Means only one server, one nickname and as many channels on same server as you wish to join. So one network = one server.

Now fill your details. Noting that network name will be used for connection so make it short and descriptive. Like for p2p network just type p2p. If you will connect to p2p network twice with different nicknames then make it p2p1 and p2p2 or anything you like.

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Note that , servers to this irc network, is meant for backup servers connection. Like if you have 2 domains or 2 servers for same network and want to guarantee connection in case one of them is down. The list would be

foo.p2p-network.net +6697
ftw.p2p-network.net +6697

Also note that I use ssl connection here using the + before the port and the ssl port provided by the server details.

Nickname, Alt nickname...etc are your choices of course.

Now look to this screenshot!

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Here are the modules for some auto-operations. You can use any modules. I recommend the ones marked. All without anything to type except the nickserv module which you must enter the nickserv password to protect your nickname on the server.

We did NOT register the name yet but type it now since we are already here.

Save the settings and continue. Go to "Perform" page

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Type all the auto commands you want. In case any disconnection happens, these command will be triggered on connection start. Joining channels, irc key identifications, invites commands...etc.

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Save and Continue.

Now open your client and connect. On mIRC you'd use this command

/server 192.168.222.25:+11222 user1/p2pAnyName:user1password

- 192.168.222.25:+11222 is the znc server. if it's domain then use the domain name.
- user1 is the znc username, the one you're using for logging in to the znc web settings (not the irc nickname)
- p2pAnyName is the network short name we selected
- user1password is the password for the user1 account

You can also use null for any client

/server 192.168.222.25:+11222

then after connection use

/quote PASS user1/p2pAnyName:user1

There are many ways to connect. Now after connection, register your nick and join your channels and do everything as you were NOT using ZNC. To register your nick

/msg NickServ REGISTER <myNamemyName> <any@anyEmail.com>

Replace the text between <> (including these marks) with your proper details. Now since everything is ready, we will do one last check and disconnect then reconnect the znc to the network.

Exit mIRC or whatever client you're suing. Head back you settings.

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Now go to the network you created and click "Edit" then un-mark "Connect to IRC & automatically re-connect"

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Then save the settings and continue. Then go back and mark "Connect to IRC & automatically re-connect" then save the settings.

Connect now using your client and you will see that the connection initiated, nick identified, channels joined and on the ZNC page it says, 1 Client is connected.

For more network, repeat and repeat. It's not difficult or something. Just first time you need to pay attention then it will be like pressing the button to power up the PC.