exile;261311 Wrote: 
> eric's advice is spot on. I would add simply that if you're going to
> access your music remotely regularly then you should set yourself up
> with a dynamic (i.e. non-changing) web address for your slim server
> computer. i have an account with dyndns.com. it's free and after you
> set it up, you will forever after have one non-changing web address to
> refer to when you want to listen to your music.
> 
> good luck.

Good advice - I listen to my music remotely from work quite often and
set this up too.  The stock firmware in the Linksys WRT-54G supports
this and will update DynDns regularly.

Regarding using SoftSqueeze as the remote player - keep in mind that
for that to work you have to forward another port in addition to 9000 -
the slimproto port of 3483.

At work, I found that I was not able to use SoftSqueeze.  I think the
proxy was blocking 3483 for some strange reason.  But I could use both
Winamp and Windows Media Player to play the stream.mp3 stream.  For
this to work, you tell winamp or wmp to play the url http://<ip of your
home network>:9000/stream.mp3.  If you have a user name and password set
up for accessing the web page for slimserver (which you should if you
have enabled remote access), then you will be prompted for the user
name and password.  Once you are streaming, you control what is being
played from the web page.

The advantage of using something like dyndns is <ip of your home
network> can be a name rather than a number, like
mynetwork.homeip.net.

Have fun.


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