Dear Goeff,
I apparently can't use port 80 because it is blocked by my ISP.
The Portforward.com site lists port 5003 as the port that Filemaker
uses FWIW.
See:
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Linksys/WRK54G/FileMaker_Pro.htm
I tried using the external IP and that doesn't go through either.
It seems like the router is just not forwarding like it should.
If you or anyone else has further ideas, please let me know.
Tnanks,
Jay
On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Geoff Graham wrote:
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
Jay Erlebacher MD, FACC
www.EnglewoodCardiologyConsultants.com
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