Thanks for your help everyone. I finally was successful with this
after several days of breaking my head!
There are several steps to this which are each straightforward, but
each has to be done right for it to work.
1. Set up Mac networking manually for a static address eg 192.168.1.50
2. Disable the firewall on the router and set up port forwarding for
port 5003, the port that Filemaker listens on. Portforward.com was
invaluable in walking me through this.
3. Open a dyndns account at dyndns.com and register for two host
names, a visitor host and a destination host. This allows redirection
to the 5003 port of your computer. You need to webhop from the visitor
URL to the destination URL and then assign your external IP address to
the destination URL. dyndns.com has good tutorials on how to do all
this.
4. Download and configure the update client from dyndns.com. You need
this because the cable company will change your external IP address
and the update client keeps dyndns.com informed.
5. Here was the part that broke my head. I could not connect with my
Filemaker file using the Visitor or Destination Host, or with the
external IP address. It turns out that this was a loopback error and
was fixed by port forwarding port 80 on my router. This was the tricky
part that stymied me for two days.
Voila!
Jay
On Jun 16, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Brian O'Hara wrote:
Hi Jay,
I've been using DynDNS for a while now to enable access to IWP and
it is very low maintenance - once you sort out how to set it up, it
just works.
Brian
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At 02:55 PM 13/06/2008, you wrote:
Jay,
Bruce is mostly right, however you don't really want to connect your
system directly to the internet, what you need to look at, and
noadays
that is easier with most ADSL routers, is NAPT also know in most
routers
as Application and Gaming settings.
Here you set your system to become the system talked to when a
connection to a webserver (port 80) is attempted from the internet.
Mostly this works best when you fix the IP on your system running the
IWP webserver.
Another one supported by most ADSL routers is dyndns.org here you
just
create an account with a dns name like jayerlebacher.dyndns.org and
you
have your router update this automagicly.
It sounds more complicated than it reallye is.
Regards, Maarten.
Bruce Herbach wrote:
Hi Jay,
You have a couple of issues to overcome for this to work. First
if you have a router between your internet connection and the PC,
you may have to connect the PC directly to the cable modem in
order to get an address that is reachable from the internet.
Depending on the router you have it may be able to forward the
address to the PC or clone the mac ( hardware address) of the PC
and make the connection for you. Check the documentation on your
router. When you are using the basic setup for a home version
router ( with or without WiFi) is provides a private /non-
routable IP address. Usually these addresses start with
192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x. These work great for your local network
and local DHCP server but can't be reached from the internet.
The second issue is getting your website set up with a DNS name.
There are a number of services that will register a domain name
for you and work with a Dynamic address. They update the ip
address associated with your domain name very frequently so you
can be found.
This site provides that service. http://www.no-ip.com/
Please note, I haven't used this company so I can't recommend
their service The URL is included as an example of the service
you will need. You will have to do some research to select a
provider.
I hope this helps.
Bruce Herbach
Jay Erlebacher wrote:
Hi,
Perhaps someone can advise me on how to set up IWP using a host
computer with cable modem access to the web.
The IP address that is in my IWP set up doesn't connect to my IWP
page from my friends' computers. I have a feeling that this is
the IP of my router.
Would I be right in assuming that I have a problem because I have
a dynamic rather than a fixed IP address?
Am I therefore unable to use IWP?
Is there a workaround?
Jay Erlebacher
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Jay Erlebacher MD, FACC
www.EnglewoodCardiologyConsultants.com
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