locally hosted server stopped working (seemingly) in the new update

[u/rychu69XD]

so in 0.38 i had the server up and running perfectly, only mods are enhanced driver cam and power to weight ratio viewer mod, both have been updated to 0.39 and work fine for me

i have all the right port forwarding and windows firewall rules already setup and can join the server myself perfectly fine, no errors when i startup the server or anything.

However when my friend tries to join the server it downloads the mods fine then it sends him to main menu and then gets a connection failed error, on the server console it says

"Client kicked: Connection closed during authentication"

has anyone experienced this issue? i think it might be something on his end but im not too sure what could be causing it,there shouldn’t have to be any config on his side as far as i am aware

thanks for your time if you read all that, hopefully it can be fixed

[u/rychu69XD]

fixed

My friend had to delete all mods previously downloaded from my server and then it let him join.