callesoroe wrote: > Hi! > > You can also create a dyndns name for your music server. I have done > that with great success. Then your router shall forward port 9000 and > 3483 TCP/UDP. Put in user/password in LMS . I have created an account on > www.dyndns.org. > Was free earlier but costs a small amount now for a year. Then you can > access your music everywhere by putting in your dyndns name as a > servername xxxxxxxxxx.dyndns.org:9000 . You can set this up in iPeng > and Squeezeplayer too. > I enjoy this very much when travelling in train to work every day, and I > also have a little iPod dock on my desk, that can play my music from > home. A very nice soloution.
I didn't mention it, but I have setup ddns with no-ip.com. I've setup user/password in LMS also, but wanted to try VPN for better security. Also, just wanted to learn about VPN use. get.amped wrote: > This is a good recommendation. You will likely experience IP conflicts > if the remote LAN also uses 192.168.1.x addressing (the default for many > consumer broadband routers). It's a one-time change that will cause a > small disruption when you do it but will be worth it in the long run. epoch1970 wrote: > - I've quickly gone through the dev.mensfeld.pl guide, it seems to the > point; I'd use that, esp. if you are using Tomato as your VPN server. > - I've always setup openvpn in a private environment, with a laptop > -with personal firewall OFF- as test client, before going all out with > the server listening to the WAN port, using certs and all. Not sure > Tomato would let you define simplistic tunnel setups (like trying to hop > from a home wireless network to a separate home wired network, with no > cypher and simple password security), but I'd recommend to tackle the > problem as gradually as possible. > (Be warned that if the OpenVPN server listens to the WAN, you should > test with a client using an outside address, as one obtained from a > public wifi hotspot. If the client comes from a private address within > your own network you might enter the router 'hairpinning' issue.) > - Use easy-rsa (or any GUI helper using it) to generate certs when you > go for certificate-based authentication. You can generate credentials on > any machine and move them to the target machines afterwards. What target > machines/applications will be fussy about is the format of the files > (pkcs12, PEM ...) > - The openvpn app seems to work on iOS 6.1 onwards; My ipad never leaves > home and my iPhone still runs iOS 5, so I've never used it... However: > i. you need this app for sure on your iOS devices if you want to use > them as OpenVPN clients, ii. your first client would rather be a laptop, > debugging will be much easier. > > About the 192.168.1.x network: what these guides say is that > 192.168.1.0/24 is the most common private network. So, if you're on a > wifi hotspot with a 192.168.1.123 LAN address, connect to your OpenVPN > server and it tries to serve you with a 192.168.1.56 address because > your own network is on 192.168.1.x too, the client will get confused. > Moving to 192.168.2.x is a trick supposed to mitigate the issue. > I'm sure 192.168.2.x is quite commonly used too. I'd rather recommend > moving up to 192.168.255.0/24 (the .255 part of the quad strikes fear in > some admins, as it looks like a broadcast address), or better to a > -possibly subnetted if you're brave- "class-B" private network, like > 172.[16 to 31].0.0/16. The "class-A" private network 10.0.0.0/8 is also > commonly used but again if you use a subnet like 10.255.255.0/24 I doubt > you'll find many conflicting configurations in the outside world. > (and since you only seek access to your LMS server, in case you don't > want to renumber your home network, you could also run an openvpn client > on the LMS server too, and let OpenVPN manage its own network, eg > 192.168.255.0/24. AFAIK if LMS runs on a machine with multiple > interfaces it will listen to all by default. Just make sure the OpenVPN > client on the server has setup its interface before LMS starts up.) > > I hope this helps and is clear enough. OpenVPN is a fantastic piece of > software well worth some initial investment. Thanks for the additional info! I will get started shortly. I want NBC's *-Ed-* on DVD/Blu-ray! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 808htfan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102819 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
