Rob McKaughan;180061 Wrote: > Any ideas on how to do this? > > I want to go over to my friend's house and have her squeezebox connect > to my server, thus being able to play and navigate my collection from > her squeezebox. The key is that I want the UI to be the squeezebox, > not the web interface. Ideally, too, I'd leave an m3u or some such to > make it easy to connect via the squeezebox UI. > > It's sorta like connecting to Squeezenetwork, but it connects to my > server. > > And, of course, I want to do this as securely as possible. > > And a pony... > > > It doesn't appear that connecting to http://myhouse:9000/stream.mp3 > helps because it doesn't let me navigate my collection from the > squeezebox. I want her squeezebox to appear like it's on my LAN > (unless, of course, she wants to play her own music).
The secure and good way to do this if you intend a long-term setup is to use SSH and port forwarding (just do a search in these forums, I'm sure someone's written a step-by-step). Doing this, however, is a nuisance for a number of reasons...not the least of which being that it requires that you run an SSH client on a computer on her LAN. The easier, unsecure way to do it (indeed, the way that I do it) is to open port 9000 (tcp) and 3483 (tcp and udp) in your firewall and set up port forwarding on your router for those two ports so that all incoming requests on those ports go to your computer running slimserver. It's only insecure in as much as 1) communication between your squeezebox and server is unencrypted (who cares), 2) anyone who knows your ip address could stream music from you (unlikely, but possible) and 3) though there are no currently known exploits, it's possible that these open ports could more readily allow a hacker to attack and access your system. The real trouble with the easy setup is that it only really works well if the network where slimserver is located has a static global ip address. Most home internet connections do not enjoy such a luxury. Services like ipupdater and dyndns provide the helpful ability to reference your home computer at any time via dns without having to know your current IP, but the squeezebox cannot resolve named addresses. So you might get lucky and have a static IP, or a dynamic IP that changes infrequently enough so as to be effectively static, but odds are that you'll have to look up your IP address every time you want to access your collection with her squeezebox. If you want the longer-term setup then use SSH. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32707 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
