Update (05/02/2011): With the release of Mumble v.1.2.3-rc2, the below mentioned method isn’t necessary anymore. Please have a look at this post for updated information.

My World of WarCraft guild changed the voice software this weekend. We used Ventrilo up until now, but our server will shut down today, so we had to change and gave Mumble 1.2.2 a try. The server setup was quick, the voice quality is good and the channel based ACLs provides a huge flexibility for user group based access rights. We are using a basic “two area” channelsetup – a closed area for guild members only (for raids, pvp, chating, etc.) and a public area (for random groups, friends, etc.). So, every guild member is registered to the server and was given access rights to the internal area by the admin.

After using mumble for the first two days, we noticed a little flaw: When a authenticated user disconnect from Murmur, the server saves the last channel the user was in. If the user connects to the server again, the server moves the user back to the last channel automatically. I understand, that this feature is probably widly seen as a “nice-to-have” and not as a drawback, but our voice server is used quite heavy and already a few people bumped in conversations accidentally. So, I started to search for a solution to set a default channel to get everyone in the lobby after a connect.

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