echable wrote: > Cool with the right-click top bar to switch servers, I run two also. > > After recent update (there was one just a day or two, if I'm correct ?) > the server field requires the internal IP address to access a LAN > www.ddns.com address LMS server without port forwards, i.e. when the > ports are not forwarded it requires the 192.168.1.XXX address. > > But it accepts a LAN www.ddns.com address on another server where the > ports are forwarded. > > Is this as-expected unavoidable behaviour ? Am I not grasping something > fundamental here that someone could explain to me ? > > Given that it accepts the www.ddns.com address on the server that has > port forwarding on, does this mean (despite the Microsoft Store > description specifying "on local network") that Squeezelite-X could in > that case work from a remote wifi too ? > > Great software anyway, thanks! > > (yeah yeah I know the "don't forward your ports" lectures, but I got > defences you don't know about :) Anyway, what about focusing future LMS > updates on tightening that security then, an obvious appeal of this > software is using it from anywhere, without going the whole route of > setting up your own VNP server server then starting your own VPN connect > app etc. etc. to connect remotely - gripe finished :) )
You can indeed use SLX to connect to an LMS server on another non-local network despite what it says on the MS Store. I do this myself all the time. (I have a dedicate R-Pi just for this purpose, separate from my In-Home system, and I use Dynamic DNS and port forwarding (ports: 3483 for the player, 9000 for the http interface, and 9090 for the telnet interface (or whatever you have defined for those ports if not default)). As for whether SLX can resolve the local server name, it should. That said, I have noticed cases where it wouldn't, like when I had a server that was using a static IP address rather than leasing one from the DHCP server (My router), so the name could not be resolved by my router/DHCP server. If you do connect to a remote server, be advised that Logitech Media Server is designed to not allow the TelNet interface for remote connections, unless the LMS is has password protection enabled. SLX should tell you that if you try it with enabling password protection. R Greg Dawson Squeezelite-X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgdawson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65236 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108550 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
