The IP you are seeing is the external IP address of your router. Without knowing how your network looks I am willing to bet that your home network uses one of the private network ranges available for use (10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x or 192.168.x.x) and that your router handles IP assignment for all your computers. Whenever you access something on the Internet, your router translates the internal (private) IP address of the computer your are using into your (single) public IP address (together with something called a port number). When the respons returns to you, the router uses the port number to translate back so that the data is sent to the correct internal computer. In short it is said to NAT (Network Address Translation).
It might be possible to access the Slimserver via the IP address you use but it requires the router to be able to "loop-back" the data sent from an internal computer to the external IP address but really intended for an internal computer. Even if this is possible you should realise the security implications as your server would also be accessible to anyone on the Internet. Best bet is to use the internal IP address instead. There are many ways to get the IP address of your Windows XP box but one is to do this: 1) Press "Start" and select "Run..." 2) Type "cmd" and then press Enter 3) Type "ipconfig" and then press Enter. You will see four lines for every network device on your system. One will be the IP address you should use. There are also services on Windows that would enable you to just type the computer name of your server. However, I am not sure if OS X has the necessary client support. There are other methods as well but the above is probably easiest for you. Note that the IP address of your server is probably dynamic (unless you have entered it yourself) and don't be surprised if it changes if you turn all your equipment off and then on again. -- bergek Transporter - Squeezebox 3 - Serener GS-L02 - Via EPIA SP8000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bergek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7805 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30295 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
