[tanq (old)]

The skinny on this is that I tend to swap between windows and linux about every two years.  This time I decided to just remain dual boot and decided to save disk space by using symlinks.  So, I have quake3 and q3ut3 installed on mw windows box, and everything runs smooth.  So I decided to play q3 in linux again and now for some reason when I attempt to join a q3ut3 server I get the mis-typed cd key error.  Of course, some of you are quick to say that the cd key is not legit; however, that is not the case.  I suspect the problem is in my setup or has to do with the guid/key/pb.

The Setup:
Windows XP:
Standard install of QuakeIII with q3ut3. 

Linux:
#> /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3 $ ls -la
total 25508
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    320 Sep  9 21:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root    488 Sep 10 10:55 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      54 Sep  9 21:12 pak0.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/baseq3/pak0.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games  374405 Sep  9 20:54 pak1.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games 7511182 Sep  9 20:54 pak2.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games  276305 Sep  9 20:54 pak3.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games 9600350 Sep  9 20:54 pak4.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games  191872 Sep  9 20:54 pak5.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games 7346884 Sep  9 20:54 pak6.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games  320873 Sep  9 20:54 pak7.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games  454478 Sep  9 20:54 pak8.pk3
-rwxrwxrwx 1 games games    167 Sep 14 19:11 q3key
-r-------- 1 games games    167 Sep  9 21:14 q3key.bak


q3ut3 directory contents:lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  55 Sep 12 17:32 zQ3UT3.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zQ3UT3.pk3
lrwxrwxr-- 1 games games  56 Sep 12 17:32 zQ3UT31.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zQ3UT31.pk3
lrwxrwxr-- 1 games games  56 Sep 12 17:32 zQ3UT32.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zQ3UT32.pk3
lrwxrwxr-- 1 games games  56 Sep 12 17:32 zQ3UT33.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zQ3UT33.pk3
lrwxrwxr-- 1 games games  56 Sep 12 17:32 zQ3UT34.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zQ3UT34.pk3
lrwxrwxr-- 1 games games  56 Sep 12 17:32 zQ3UT35.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zQ3UT35.pk3
lrwxrwxr-- 1 games games  56 Sep 12 17:32 zQ3UT36.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zQ3UT36.pk3
lrwxrwxr-- 1 games games  56 Sep 12 17:32 zQ3UT37.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zQ3UT37.pk3
lrwxrwxr-- 1 games games  65 Sep 12 17:32 zzzRetroMapPak35.pk3 -> /mnt/win/Program Files/Quake III Arena/q3ut3/zzzRetroMapPak35.pk3
.... all maps etc...


so I think that is the gist of what is going on.
Any idea if any of this would cause a mis-typed cd key error?

[mitsubishi]

try moving q3key from /usr..baseq3 to ~/.q3a/baseq3 or rm it so you can type the key again. here it's made by the game in ~

[[PCC]cyrus]

Did you try re-typing the key when Quake 3 starts?

[tanq (old)]

Ok so here was the problem.  I got even more lazy and symlinked ~/.q3a/baseq3 -> /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3
I guess it didn't like the fact that it was reading the files twice?
[me=tanq]shrugs [/me]

And to answer your question I had retyped the cd key to give me the warm fuzzy, but that was not the problem as you now know.

Thanks anyway.