Shredder;302232 Wrote: > I should know how to do this, but cannot figure it out. I would love to > stream my music collection from my Thecus 5200 NAS (located in my > house) to my computer at work. How is that accomplished? > > Also, I would love to be able to stream to an iPhone. Is that possible > and if so, how? > > ANy assisatance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
General steps.. assuming you have a cable/adsl connection (and winders) and that your SC machine is connected to the cable/dsl box WITHOUT a router/wireless access point in-between... Most cable setups give you a "static" (unchanging IP address) and many phone companies DSL automatically give you a "static" address when you have higher speeds. 1. at the home computer, open a browser and go to www.whatismyip.com. Write down this "external IP address." 2. open a command window and type ipconfig <enter> write down the IP address and the default gateway (assuming you are on the machine running SC.) 3. in a browser window key http://default gateway address <enter> Mine is http://192.168.0.111 This should display the configuration screen for your cable/dsl modem. This is the tricky part because there are so many different models. I've used Netopia and Westell (ATT) modems so I'll give you them as an example.. 4. You will be looking for NAT setup. In my modems you go to expert mode/configure/NAT. BACKGROUND: what we want to do is to tell the modem that when it sees business from the "outside" world (internet/work) on a particular PORT number, forward that traffic to the SC machine. There are two ports involved, TCP 9000 and TCP 3483. "Default" behavior for these modems is to reject ANY inbound traffic from the internet that hasn't been requested by a computer on the "inside". This is a good thing, preventing the outside world from seeing the network in your home. In my netopia, I have to "define" a service (as port forwarding, range of ports) from ports 9000 through 9000 to base port 9000. Then I do the same for port 3483. When I tell the modem to "enable" these services, it asks which computer address I want them to be sent to. Here you enter the IP address from the ipconfig screen (the address of the machine that is running SC.) Some modems may let you fill this info into a form rather than having a two-step process and some modems will show the names of the machines in addition to IP addresses when you select the target. 5. go here http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php and download lame. This is the code that will compress your music on-the-fly as you play it remotely. Put LAME.EXE in C:\program files\squeezecenter\server\bin\mswin32-x86-multi-thread You don't need the .DLL version. You'll know it's the right place because it will have alac.exe, flac.exe, sox.exe, etc. 6. go to the outside world and open a browser, keying the address: http://<whatismyip>:9000 where <whatismyip> is the "external IP address" from the earlier step. The http:// is very important if you are using a newer version of Internet Explorer because they don't make a guess about which protocol to use on non-standard ports (like 9000) If everything has been done right, you should see SC. If you don't, it's possible that port 9000 is blocked by your IT people. Tough luck. Try again from a public WiFi to see if you've got the configuration right. 7. go to extras and install SoftSqueeze. 8. things may be ok at this point, but I would rename the SoftSqueeze player and change it's Audio settings to about 128K. The Lame quality setting you use depends on how fast your SC machine is ... 9. advanced diddling: run SoftSqueeze. open SC, select the SoftSqueeze player and go to HELP/Server and Network Health. Pick a speed and the results will be shown on the SoftSqueeze display and in SC. This is testing the outbound speed of your home broadband connection. If you have a very fast connection at home, you can push this up but REMEMBER... you'll also be sucking bandwidth from your employer's inbound connection so it might be better to be reasonable (and not attract attention...) -- pski ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47684 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
