teamspeak-server/README.md

TeamSpeak 3 Server — silico.ca

Install notes and config for the TeamSpeak 3 server running on the Fedora VPS (vps-93975aa7.vps.ovh.ca). The TeamSpeak 5 desktop client talks to TS3 servers, so "latest" here is TeamSpeak 3 Server 3.13.7 — the current stable release.

Connection info

Field	Value
Address	silico.ca (or ts.silico.ca)
Voice port	9987/udp (default — omit)
Query port	10011/tcp (ServerQuery)
File transfer	30033/tcp
Version	3.13.7 (Linux amd64)

Client setup

1. Download the TeamSpeak 5 client from https://teamspeak.com/en/downloads/ (Windows / macOS / Linux / iOS / Android). The TS3 client still works too.
2. Launch the client and create a free myTeamSpeak identity (or skip and use a local identity).
3. Connections → Connect, then enter:
   • Server Nickname or Address: silico.ca
   • Nickname: whatever you like
4. On first connect you'll be prompted for a privilege key — paste the admin token (see below) to claim Server Admin rights. Only do this on the very first connection; afterwards you're promoted automatically based on identity.

Admin privilege key (one-time use)

The server generated this on first startup. Anyone who redeems it becomes Server Admin, so use it once and then delete this section, or revoke it from the server's token list:

token=VxpG+bVvZHX5bV8UcBJNRW4ADRnGmALLaxBnHhGx

If it's already been used, generate a new one via ServerQuery (privilegekeyadd with tokentype=0 tokenid1=6 tokenid2=0) or by running ts3server with a fresh database.

Server install

Installed under /opt/teamspeak owned by the teamspeak system user. See install.sh for the exact steps used. Logs live at /opt/teamspeak/logs/, the SQLite DB at /opt/teamspeak/ts3server.sqlitedb.

The systemd unit is in teamspeak.service:

sudo systemctl {status,restart,stop} teamspeak
sudo journalctl -u teamspeak -f

Firewall

The VPS has no host firewall active (nftables and firewalld are both inactive on this Fedora 43 Cloud image), so OVH's upstream network is the only filter. The three TS3 ports are reachable from the public internet as-is. If a host firewall is enabled later, open:

• 9987/udp — voice
• 10011/tcp — ServerQuery (optional, consider binding to localhost only)
• 30033/tcp — file transfer (avatars, channel icons, uploads)

Notes to self

A few things I noticed while putting this together and would want to remember next time:

• bzip2 wasn't installed on the minimal Fedora Cloud image. The TS3 tarball is .tar.bz2, so tar -xjf failed until dnf install bzip2 ran. Worth baking into a base provisioning script.
• License acceptance has two mechanisms: touching .ts3server_license_accepted in the install dir and passing license_accepted=1 on the command line. The systemd unit passes the flag, which is the documented-as-official path; the touch file is belt-and-braces.
• The admin token is only printed once, into stdout of the first run. It gets captured in journalctl -u teamspeak but if the journal is wiped before it's used, you have to generate a replacement via ServerQuery or start from a fresh DB. I grabbed it from the journal rather than parsing log files because the log files are named with a timestamp and that's brittle to script.
• Ports 10080 and 10022 also open — those are TS3's built-in HTTP ServerQuery and SSH ServerQuery respectively. They're on by default in 3.13.7. I left them running but they're candidates for binding to 127.0.0.1 in ts3server.ini if we don't need remote admin.
• TeamSpeak 5 vs 3 confusion: TeamSpeak 5 is a client-only rewrite; the server product is still TS3 and there's no "TeamSpeak 5 Server" to install. Worth flagging because "latest version" is ambiguous from a user's POV.
• No DNS record yet for ts.silico.ca. silico.ca itself resolves to the VPS so it works, but a dedicated A record would be tidier and lets us move the service later without telling everyone a new address.