OK; getting there. Forwarded ports 9000 and 9090, and now I have managed to connect to the home PC and open the Slimserver Web interface and use it remotely. But not yet able to get SoftSqueeze to see the home machine. In Softsqueeze Preferences I am putting the same IP Address that works for Slimserver in the 'Slimserver Hostname' field; I have '9000' in Slimserver HTTP Port, and '3483' as Slimserver SlimProto Port. Is this right? Should there be a 9090 in there somewhere?
-- Neil "Geoff B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1/3/06, Neil Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or which port to forward ... Assuming you want to use SoftSqueeze from a remote location to play music served up by your SlimServer at home: Forward port 9000 to allow web access to the SlimServer Forward port 9090 to allow SoftSqueeze access to the SlimServer Port 3483 (mentioned in your original post) is actually used for Terminal Services / remote desktop connection. You probably shouldn't forward it unless you use a secure tunnel (see below). I don't use the same router/modem as you, so you're on your own with finding the port fowarding setup; but it shouldn't be too complicated. You just need to forward those two ports from the outside world (WAN) to your SlimServer PC. This isn't particularly safe. Ideally, you would use a secure tunnel to make it all a lot more, well, secure. To do this: Install OpenSSH on your SlimServer PC: http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ Install a client such as Tunnelier on your remote PC: http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier.html Generate a keypair in OpenSSH. I don't have the steps I used for this, so you'll need to do some googling and reading, but it's not too hard. Remove the port forwarding you set up, and instead forward just port 22. Then, in Tunnelier, set up C2S forwarding: Listen interface: 127.0.0.1 Listen port: 9000 Dest Host: localhost Dest Port: 9000 Listen interface: 127.0.0.1 Listen port: 9090 Dest Host: localhost Dest Port: 9090 If you also want remote desktop access: Listen interface: 127.0.0.1 Listen port: 3483 Dest Host: localhost Dest Port: 3483 You can also have it execute SoftSqueeze automatically if you fill in the 'Execute' field with the java run-time engine and SoftSqueeze jar file name. Mine says: "C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_07\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "C:\Program Files\SoftSqueeze\SoftSqueeze.jar" Hope that helps Geoff B _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
