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In Garry's Mod, many servers utilise content from Counter-Strike: Source and Half Life 2. This article covers mounting the content from these games to your server so that you may utilise maps, models, and other resources from these games.

MOUNTING CS:S / HL2 FILES ONTO YOUR SERVER

1. Install the game you wish to mount on your PC using Steam or use other online sources to obtain the files.
• CS:S Steam Page
• HL2 Steam Page
2. Open the game directory by right-clicking the game within your Steam library, clicking Properties, selecting Local Files from the menu on the left side of the dialogue, and clicking Browse.
3. Connect to your server's FTP using FileZilla or another FTP Client.
4. Drag the mod folder of the game you'd like to mount from your file manager to the root directory within the remote site panel of FileZilla. This will be cstrike for CS:S and hl2 for HL2.
5. Wait for the upload to finish. These games are rather large, so it may take a little to upload.
6. Edit mount.cfg located under the path /garrysmod/cfg as appropriate for the game you are mounting.
• If you are mounting CS:S, remove the comment (//) before the line that contains cstrike and change everything within the double quotes to cstrike.

  "mountcfg"
  {
  "cstrike" "cstrike"
  // "hl2" "hl2"
  }

• If you are mounting HL2, remove the comment (//) before the line that contains hl2 and change everything within the double quotes to hl2.

  "mountcfg"
  {
  // "cstrike" "cstrike"
  "hl2" "hl2"
  }

7. Save the file and restart your server to apply the changes.
• To test if CS:S was mounted successfully, you can run the console command changelevel de_dust2. If the map changes to Dust 2, CS:S is mounted.
• To test if HL2 was mounted successfully, you can run the console command changelevel d1_town_01. If the map changes to Town, HL2 is mounted.

If you still require help, please check out our video tutorial below.