This sounds like its getting increasingly complicated... Work firewall issues aside, all you should need to do to allow audio streaming remotely (from your home slimserver to you at work) is this:
1. Configure your router firewall to forward incoming TCP port 9000 traffic to port 9000 on the PC running SlimServer. 2. Check your slimserver configuration via the SlimServer web page. Go to Home / Server Settings / Security. Check if Block Incoming Connections is set to "Block" or "Do Not Block". Set it to "Do Not Block". 3. Determine your Home internet facing IP address. You can get this information from your router. 4. Open your media player, and point it at http://<your home ip address>:9000/steam.mp3 My recommendation though is that you DO NOT do this. You are opening up yourself to a host of security issues. You could make this configuration more secure by giving SLimServer a password, and by restricted connections to SlimServer to the IP address you are coming from at work, but thats not straight forward, as your work IP address is likely to change. What I would suggest you do, given the above, and the added complication of the firewall you will have at work, is to use SSH. I do this, and have done for a while. It works flawlessly, means you can get by the firewall issues, and means you only need to forward port 22 on your router, meaning your home network is much more secure. Go to http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html and follow the instructions there - don't be put off by the apparent complexity, it is in fact quite straight forward. You install cygwin, with the OpenSSH server package, and reboot. Then you need an ssh client for work (such as Putty), that is also straight forward. You need to forward port 22 from the internet to your PC. >From work, you would then open an SSH tunnel using the following command (but you'll probably be using a Windows based client, such as Putty): ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L 9000:localhost:9000 -f -N Then you can start streaming. Point your media player to this URL: http://localhost:9000/stream.mp3 and bob's your uncle. To get access to the SlimServer web interface, use this URL: http://localhost:9000 One other thing, if you have a dynamically allocated internet address (as most of us do) from your ISP, that isn't a problem - use a dynamic DNS resolution service - I has www.dyndns.org. Its free. You pick a domain name (e.g. fredsmith.homeip.net), and type in the IP address you have. Its likely that your router supports services like DynDns, so you then put your DynDns details in the router, and when your IP address changes, it updates DynDNS with the new address. You then use your domain name instead of the IP address to connect to home. Works for me...very well. I'm happy to explain more if there are parts to this that aren't clear. Chris. -- chris.mason ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33543 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
