Re: [slim] Slimserver access from work using SSH
Glad to hear it's working mostly to your satisfaction. As for your issue with Softsqueeze make sure you have the latest version which is 3.5. I've had some issues with 3.3 being a bit flakey and hopefully 3.5 will fix that. As always, YMMV. -- 4mula1 SlimServer 6.5.4 + Solaris 10 x86: Because Linux would've been too easy! 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 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
Re: [slim] Slimserver access from work using SSH
Thanks for your tips. When I use the local IP's, all is speedy and works just fine. the reason I tried to use the external IP from home was simply to test it out before going to work. When I tried this at home I got so bad performance it would not work. But (here is the weird thing) when I tried it from work, it worked straight away, with much snappier perfomance. Go figure. So I am a somewhat happy camper now, I'm still having some problems like softsqueeze automagically skipping songs, but I guess that's another issue. /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
Re: [slim] Slimserver access from work using SSH
It would seem that since you are using your external IP address your requests from the Softsqueeze machine are going through your internet connection to your ISP which is then routed back down your internet connection to your SlimServer box. You will have traffic coming and going on your internet connection which will probably choke it out a bit. For testing purposes you can use your internal ip address and the performance will be much better. You've proven that you can stream remotely, so set up Softsqueeze at work and give it a try. The performance won't be as good as your local network, especially if you're transcoding, but it's not that bad either. I stream to work during lunch on an almost daily basis. -- 4mula1 SlimServer 6.5.4 + Solaris 10 x86: Because Linux would've been too easy! 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 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
[slim] Slimserver access from work using SSH
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 goodso 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
