ejance;524363 Wrote: > guys thanks so much. it was the fact that i didn't open up port 3483 for > udp. now it i can use squeezeplay to access my music remotely and im > thrilled! >
That's great, congratulations! :-) ejance;524363 Wrote: > > a few follow-up questions: > > what are the risks of having these ports open? a couple of you > mentioned using alternatives to use because of this. > Well, I do not really expect the SBS to be tuned for high security. :-) Any open port IS a security risk, because if the program listening on the port has a bug, it makes your server vulnerable for remote attacks. And if an attacker has access to your server it's probably easy to gain control of your whole network. That's why I only open ports for wide-spread (and highly tested) programs like OpenSSH, OpenVPN or Apache. These are made for public access and are thoroughly tested. For your particular purpose, I would recommend using OpenVPN (a free VPN solution for all major OSs including Linux, MacOS and Windows) and only allow SqueezeBox access over this VPN. ejance;524363 Wrote: > > i have searched high and low for stream.mp3 but cannot find it. what is > it exactly? > You can create some kind of "virtual SqueezeBox" by pointing your browser to http://yourserver:9000/stream.mp3 This new "player" will show up and can be controlled on the SBS and on programs like SqueezeCommander (on Android) or iPeng (on iPhone). But there are some caveats: - You need a good CPU on your server, because all songs will be transcoded to MP3 (a NAS will probably not work) - There will be a delay between the commands (e.g. play/pause/next...) and their effect (because of the buffering) -- flattermann Home of 'SqueezeCommander' (http://www.squeezecommander.com) - The SqueezeBox Remote Control App for Android ------------------------------------------------------------------------ flattermann's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75558 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
