CJS wrote: > Just to explain my situation, I have 2 PC's: > PC 1 runs Windows and has LMS installed. > PC 2 is dual boot Windows / Lubuntu, and both boot partitions have > Squeezeplay installed. With the ufw firewall enabled on the Lubuntu > system, SqueezePlay on Lubuntu won't connect to LMS on PC1. > > In first instance I misinterpreted the information in the UFW log file. > But I think I now understand. In my own simple words: After the LMS > client (i.e. Squeezeplay) has contacted the LMS server on PC 1, the LMS > server sends back a message *from* port 3843 to a random port on the LMS > client, using the UDP protocol. In the ufw log file that I showed this > happened to be port 40162, but I have also seen various other (seemingly > random) port numbers. Since the random ports are blocked by the firewall > on Lununtu, the LMS client can't establish a working connection with the > LMS server. > > Give me some time to configure the firewall on Lubuntu to receive > information on random port numbers from the LMS server, as suggested by > BosseJ. My first thought is to define an application based firewall rule > that only allows the LMS client (i.e. Squeezeplay) to receive udp > packets on a random port number above 1023.
It's probably simpler to follow bpa's excellent advise and set the LMS PC IP-address in the settings. That will most likely circumvent the discovery procedure and set up connections directly to LMS. 2 Touch, 1 Picoreplayer 4.1.0 on RaspBerry 3B with 7" display LMS latest nightly on Ubuntu 18.04.1 on Intel Core2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz, 2GB All wired ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BosseJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109829 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
