I Cannot Connect To My Home Vibe Server from Work Computer

Siit

I love your software, and I love the quality of the sound of the Vibestreamer MP3 player. I am able to access the player from home through my Internet Explorer browser (192.168.1.1018081), but even though I have set up my Linksys Cable/DSL wired router to port forward to this address, and also set up my McAfee Firewall Plus software to allow access to the 8081 port, I am unable to connect to the Vibestreamer player and playlists through my work computer's Internet Explorer browser.

Please help.

Thanks.

Lee Michael Malin
Harmonyman@msn.com

You have to use your external IP adress.
The one you use at home is an internal ip-adress that only works behind your router.

here you can see your external IP adress [url31dmic9h]http://www.whatsmyip.org/[/url31dmic9h]

/sox

Sox

When I go to whatsmyip.org from my home computer, which is behind a Linksys Cable/DSL wired router, I get the address 66.7.246.130. When I try to connect to that address as 66.7.246.1308081, I access my Linksys configuration screens only.

What do I do now?

Thanks.

Lee

Try and setup VibeStreamer on a different port (like 2053). And configure your router to redirect traffic from that port to your internal ip adress. (the one that you tried to connect to from work)

and then try and connect from the outside.


/sox

What sox is talking about is port forwarding...you simply open the config page on your router and find something that shows "Port Forwarding" and redirect port 8081 to the PC running the vibe software. 192.168.x.x
This will send all enquiry information from the outside world on port 8081 to that particular computer running Vibe software. Should work like a charm

Sox

I changed the port to 2053 on my Vibestream Server, went in to the Linksys router to forward that port to my internal ip address, 192.168.1.101, tried to connect from the outside computer, and I still cannot connect.

Any other suggestions, please?

Thanks.

Lee

Sox

I changed the port to 2053 on my Vibestream Server, went in to the Linksys router to forward that port to my internal ip address, 192.168.1.101, tried to connect from the outside computer, and I still cannot connect.[/quote36sudlzl]

1. Are you sure 192.168.1.101 is your internal IP? open a command prompt and type "ipconfig" (start > run > "cmd")

2. Did you open 2053 in your McAfee Security software aswell? It could be that software that blocks the traffic aswell.. so try and shut it down temporarly


/sox

Sox

I disabled McAfee firewall (and I did open the 2053 port in that software as well), and tried to connect to my internal ip address (192.168.1.1012053) but still could not connect. I checked start, run, cmd, and the internal ip address is 192.168.1.1012053).

Are you able to connect to my home computer's vibestream server at the above address from your computer where you are?

Thanks.

Lee

You still have to use your [b321fo0gv]external ip[/b321fo0gv] when you try to connect from the outside... the internal ip should only be used in the router and on your local computer.

/sox

I changed my Vibe Streamer to play on port 1987 (I've reserved the whole 1980 block of ports on my network for various services) and set my router to forward that port *externally* to the internal IP of the machine VS is running on. So when I go to VS outside the network (say, from work) I go to

myservername.com1987

Works perfectly.

I suspect a lot of problems people might have accessing their servers on a work network are the admins blocking 'uncommon' ports.

I suspect a lot of problems people might have accessing their servers on a work network are the admins blocking 'uncommon' ports.[/quote1q0ypggu]

Yep thats pretty common on bigger companys.. they only allow the basic ports like, 80, 443 and sometimes 21

I work for a big company that has most ports blocked as well. Try running the server from port 8080, which is also an HTTP port. This worked for me.