shadowboxer wrote: > BigTony;187328 Wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Having just become a convert to SS, I also would like to listen to >> music at work. I have had a go browsing the forums, but I seem to have >> spent a good few hours and I'm not really any nearer what it is I need >> to do. >> >> My Setup: >> >> SS running on my PC at Home (Windows XP Media Center) >> PC Connected to DSL router -> 8MB connection >> >> SS runs fine in my home, all my local PC's run Softsqueeze. >> >> I have tried to use winamp to play music via >> >> http://My_Home_PC_IP/stream.mp3 >> >> but all I get a timeout on the connection. >> >> If I try and look at SS from work via >> >> http://My_Home_PC_IP:9000 >> >> I get an error Connection Refused >> >> Things I 'think' in need to do : >> >> Portforward 9000 (and the other port) to my router >> >> Check blocked ports at work (22 is open 443 isn't) >> >> I will try these things out, but is there anything else I need to do? I >> read about an SSH tunnel - but that kinda sounds scary. >> >> All help appreciated >> >> BT >> > > > Just went through this process and got it working this week. > > First off, you need to port forward 9000 and that other port to the ip > address of the computer on your network running SS. > > Second, you have to have a static IP address. And when you try to come > in from the outside it is that IP address you use > http://Your_static_home_IP:9000. > > If you are using a firewall on the computer that is running SS, you > need to open it up ( zone alarms, put into your trusted zone, the ip > address of your work and the ip addresses that hamachi uses) to the > proper ip address ranges. > > My companies firewall completely locked me out so I had to set up a > free vpn connection using Hamachi. I am not very computer literate and > the ssh tunnel thingy sounded like too much for me. Here is a recent > thread I started re Hamachi and how to get it working: > > > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33407 > > The Hamachi website is: http://hamachi.cc/ > > > good luck. It is a bit of trouble to get set up, but I really love > being to access and listen to my home music library at work. >
Hamachi is cool, it they couldn't penetrate my office firewall (udp block => yellow led). Hamachi only works over udp. I ended up using OpenVPN in tcp mode, but you need to be well versed at networking and stuff to install that (unlike Hamachi). In another thread I thought of a good way to test outgoing tcp access from inside an office LAN. Fastmail, my mail provider has a 'proxy' type of server that listens to all ports from 0 to 65535. So to test if you company lets you set up connections, try (from a cmd.exe prompt): telnet pop.proxy.fastmail.fm 22 telnet pop.proxy.fastmail.fm 80 telnet pop.proxy.fastmail.fm 110 etc... If you get a POP3 prompt the outgoing port is open and you can open that port on your home router and see if you can get things to work. If you don't get a POP3 prompt, don't bother with the router, it won't work anyway. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
