Peter;180461 Wrote: > azinck3 wrote: > > 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. > > > > No, the secure and good way to do this is by using VPN technology. > SSH kind of works but is not very good at pretending to be a VPN. >
Ok, help me out here, why's a VPN better for this? I'm not an expert on either VPNs or SSH, so I'd love to learn. I would think SSH would be better since with SSH at least not all of your outbound traffic goes through the remote network--only the SB traffic. -- 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
