azinck3 wrote:
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.
That's not a prerequisite of VPN's. Only the traffic destined for the
other side of the tunnel can go over the VPN link. If you use Windows
VPN client you should uncheck 'use default gateway on remote network'
(or something) in the settings.
A nice thing about VPN's is that if you use a central 'hub' you don't
need to have static ip's (or you can move your laptop around and it will
still be on the vpn network). Using SSH as a tunnel is actually a kind
of poor man's vpn. Worse because it wasn't built to keep the link up (as
vpn's are).
I use openvpn clients that connect to each other with my colo server as
a hub, not all traffic goes over the VPN, just the stuff I want to.
That's a nice setup, but requires a colo server which makes it
impractical for most people. That's why hamachi ( http://www.hamachi.cc/
) is so nice. It can create vpn networks via a central registry, while
the traffic just moves between you and the peer. All IP addresses can be
dynamic.
With all tunneling setups you'll have to do some port forwarding if you
want to tunnel traffic to a (hardware) SqueezeBox, that's easier with
ssh which does that by default.
If the client & server have static IP's (which is usually the case in my
country) I'd just use ip filtering on the router that the slimserver is
behind. Simple, fast and plenty safe enough.
Regards,
Peter
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