Re: [slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
dminches, I used a port query tool from "our friends" at Microsoft. It's called PortQryUI. The download is at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8355e537-1ea6-4569-aabb-f248f4bd91d0&displaylang=en -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
dminches, That's a similar problem to what I'm having: I can open SlimServer from my office, I can play an mp3 stream through Windows Media Player, but I can't get SoftSqueeze to connect. I haven't solved mine SoftSqueeze problem yet, so I don't have any advice for you. If I solve mine, I'll be sure to post it. Perhaps that will help. Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
Thanks Mark. I just read your post today, and, coincidentally, I was "playing" with PuTTy earlier. Unfortunately, I don't have port 22 forwarded on my router at home and, a related issue, I haven't been able to get remote admin to my router. My office firewall is probably preventing communication with that port also. I'll forward port 22 tonight, and see if PuTTy can enable SoftSqueeze. I may have another way around. Last night, I forwarded every port between 2000 and 65534 (I did limit access to my office PC's IP address!). This morning, a port scan of my home PC from my office shows port 3389 and port 9000 as "open". I think I can use my router's "virtual server" functionality to route a WAN connection to 3389 to LAN port 3483. There's a setting in SoftSqueeze to tell it what port is the slimproto port. If I set that to 3389, maybe that will give SoftSqueeze the access that it needs to 3483. I do like the idea of using SSH, then I can eliminate the access controls. I need to learn a lot more about PuTTY and SSH, though. I don't even understand how I can forward port 22 and not give the world SSH access to my PC. (To someone who understands SSH, that question is probably nonsensical.) Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
Success! Thanks everyone. Biting the SSH bullet did the trick (Thanks Mark!). Setting-up OpenSSH was an act of "blind faith" (There's an album that I should buy!) Typing Unix commands without bothering to learn what they do was unsettling. It was also important to port forward 9000 on my router so that I could then get into SlimServer to limit the audio stream rate while SoftSqueeze was connected. (I wonder whether I can get to port 9000 through the SSH tunnel? I'm sure I can, now to go learn how. -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
I can try: This thread was somewhat helpful: http://forums.slimdevices.com/archive/index.php/t-13831.html and this one was even more so: http://forums.slimdevices.com/archive/index.php/t-19157.html This web page was helpful in setting-up OpenSSH: http://www.vbmysql.com/articles/security/protecting-mysql-sessions-with-ssh-port-forwarding-part-2/ In the step entitled, "Configuring The passwd And group Files", I had to change the command "cd c:program fileopensshbin" to "cd c:\program files\openssh\bin" When you execute the "mkpasswd -1 -u tunnel >> ..etcpasswd" command that you replace the word "tunnel" with the name of a password protected local machine user. By the way, my previous comment about forwarding port 9000 can be ignored. There's a button in the upper left of SoftSqueeze that opens SlimServer through the SSH. Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] IP Address change in Softsqueeze
I know this is an old thread, but for future reference: I found the settings in the registry under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\org\titmuss\softsqueeze When I changed them there, they changed the next time that I opened SoftSqueeze. Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38360 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Fileshare Problem with SqueezeCenter v7.0
OS is Windows XP SP2. When I set SqueezeCenter to "start when I logon" it can see my network storage drive where my music is stored. When I set it to "start automatically when the computer starts" using the very same username and password that I use to logon, it can't "see" the network based storage. SlimServer 6.5 needed UNC paths to work and I've tried that with Squeezecenter 7.0, but it reports that it's not a valid path. Thanks in advance. (I'm glad I saved the install for SlimServer 6.5. I may need to backdate!) (Yes, I've searched the forums and read most of the posts about using IP addresses and UNC paths. None of that worked.) Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45928 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fileshare Problem with SqueezeCenter v7.0
Thanks Michael. When I look at the SC properties in the Services application, the "Log On" tab shows "This account:" selected, but it shows the account name as ".\Ed" whereas my actual log on name is just "Ed". Also, while the password is shown as a string of ".", there are more of them than my password length. After testing SC and verifying that it couldn't find my network drive, I went into the Services app and manually entered my correct account name and password and then restarted the service. SC still wouldn't recognize my network drive. I went back into the Services app, and the account name had reverted back to ".\Ed" and the password length again looked wrong. I couldn't upload the complete log file - it's 167KB and the forum tells me that there's a 19 KB limit. I trimmed it from the top until it met the limit. Regards, Ed +---+ |Filename: server.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4786| +---+ -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45928 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fileshare Problem with SqueezeCenter v7.0
Thanks Michael. Yes, both "os.files" and "os.paths" were, and still are, set to "debug". Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45928 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fileshare Problem with SqueezeCenter v7.0
Just to close this out and for future reference if anyone else ever runs into this problem: I just set my HP MediaVault network based storage to allow FTP "read only" access and SC 7.0 can now access the music directory when running as a service. I didn't have any logical reason to try turning-on FTP access, just frustrated and willing to try anything. It - the MediaVault volumes - were already set to allow read-write access for "network computers" using CIFS and NFS, and to allow "read only" web browser access. I never would have suspected that SC 7.0 would need FTP access to access the drive when running as a service. Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45928 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
I'd like to thank everyone whose posted in the past regarding how to set-up remote access to SlimServer. Thanks to that wealth of information, I was able to successfully access SlimServer remotely and listen to the stream through Windows Media Player with the URL http://:9000/stream.mp3 (In fact, I'm listening to it as I write.) What I haven't been able to do is get SoftSqueeze to work. When I launch SoftSqueeze from the SlimServer window, it does launch, but never gets past the "Please wait. Connecting to Slim Server." message. I've spent a lot of effort scouring the forums, the FAQ, and the Wiki looking for an answer, but so far, no luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I think SoftSqueeze would be the better interface since it could control the SlimServer directly instead of controlling the stream with SlimServer in one window and listening to it through a separate mp3 application. T.I.A., Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
Thanks. A "Shields-Up" probe tells me that 3483 is open. I only have it set-up as a TCP port; perhaps I need to open it for UDP also? -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
Thanks aldente295, but my softsqueeze instance "Slimserver host" setting is pointing to my home PC's IP address. I have this nagging feeling that I'm missing something so blatantly obvious that I'll feel idiotic when it finally becomes clear! Ed -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Soft Squeeze Won't Connect Remotely to SlimServer
Thanks Mark! Both port 9000 and 3483 are forwarded. I learned some more last night. This may have something to do with my work PC which is on a really large company's network behind their firewall. I had an old Win95 notebook at home that I connected by dial-up to the internet. I confirmed that it was at a different IP than my router's WAN IP. Then I used a port query program to check the ports on my router. Since I had access control turned-on, the port query showed them all as "closed". Then I added the Win95 machine's IP address to the router's "allowed" list and port query showed 3483 and 9000 as "listening". I brought-up Slimserver on the "remote" machine with no problem. I couldn't test SoftSqueeze because it requires Java 1.4 but Win95 won't run Java 1.4. That said, the IP address of my work machine is also in my router's "allowed" list. This morning, a port query of my home router from work shows port 9000 as "listening" but shows port 3483 as "not listening". I need to get a modern machine, outside my company's firewall, and see if SoftSqueeze works. -- Ed C Ed C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
