Cheers, I am trying to access my slimserver from work (using Softsqueeze).
1) I run XP on both my server (at home) and my workstation (at work). (However, all my testing so far has been from another local PC (at home) instead of the work PC by using my external IP address) 2) I have installed and tried both FreeSSHd (http://www.freesshd.com/) and OpenSSH on my XP server (at home) to get SSH access. Only running one at a time of course... 3) I configured my router to port forward port 22 (SSH port) to my XP servers local IP (192.168.0.3). 4) I opened port 22 in the XP server firewall (at home). 5) I started a putty SSH session from another machine (at home) to test if it was working. In the Putty session I entered my external IP (checked using Whats my IP as well as in the router): 83.bla.bla.bla. 6) All seems to work since a terminal prompt appears asking for a login and password. Some info about cryptation keys was swiftly accepted...without knowing what they do... 7) I login with my XP admin account and password and it was accepted. Looking good....so far... 8) I started Softsqueeze (on another home machine) and tried to use the included SSH client (configred to connect to 83.bla.bla.bla) with some success. After several minutes I get a connection to Slimserver. It seems to work, I thought... Now lets play some music... 9) The performance is extremely slow. So slow that I am not getting any music at all (!) and navigating the menus from the Softsqueeze remote is extremely sluggish (VERY!). After a while the connection seemed to drop off completely. I shut down and tried option 2: Putty tunnels 10) Set up SSH tunnels using Putty. In a new Putty session I configured a local port 9000 to be forwarded to a remote port of 192.168.0.3:9000 (the LOCAL IP on my XP server). Did the same for the 3483 port. 11) Using the same session as above logged in to 83.bla.bla.bla (external IP). 12) Got a login/password prompt and logged in. Seems to work once again... 13) Started Softsqueeze and unchecked the SSH box and instead used a server of localhost:9000. 14) Got a connection from softsqueeze to Slimserver that worked (yay!) but was as slow as before (doh!): a few bits/s. Unusable. 15) My ISP up speed is about 1Mbit which should be plenty when Slimserver is set up to use bandwitdh limits using Lame transcode. 16 ) When I skip the SSH part and make a local connection directly to 192.168.0.3 from another home PC all works fine, including the bandwith limit and Lame transcode. 17) I have not yet tried to do this from work since I gathered that it must first work at home (but going from my local home PC to the Slimserver PC by Putty SSH and the router external IP. I have either done something wrong or there are some ISP limitations going on? Any comments? Thanks for your time. /Emanuel -- gammelgam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gammelgam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41734 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
