I'll chime in a little...
On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Jay Erlebacher wrote:
1. Set up Mac networking manually for a static address eg 192.168.1.50
2. Disable the firewall on the router by unchecking "block anonymous
internet requests"
Unchecking that box does not turn off the firewall; it allows the
router to respond to pings (and other requests) on the WAN port. Leave
it unchecked for now while you're troubleshooting, because you will
probably want to ping it from the outside. When you get everything
working you should probably check it back.
And oh, don't turn off your firewall.
and set up port forwarding for port 5003, the port that Filemaker
listens on.
If you plan to connect another copy of FileMaker from the internet to
your server, then this is good. But it has nothing to do with IWP. Out
of the box, I think IWP uses port 80, but I've had it say something
else is using port 80 (Apache) and want to use port 591, or 8080 or
something else. Probably not an issue since you're connecting from
inside.
You might want to set the router's DMZ to 192.168.1.50. This basically
forwards all ports, so it's less secure for your mac, but might help
you move one step further towards resolving this.
I would try to hit (and ping) the external ip directly, rather than
the dyndns url, and see where that gets me. I can't see how a utility
running on your mac inside your LAN would know the router's external
IP address, but there is a lot i don't know. I do know that the
linksys has that utility built in because there are a lot of people
doing what you're trying to do.
hope that gave you some ideas,
geoff
