Remote Web Access

ollymonster · Post by **ollymonster** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:14 pm

I have just got a Linkstation Live and I am using twonkymedia with an xbox360. How do you access the twonky server from a remote pc. I'm quite new to this and I don't know what address I would need to access the twonky drive. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance

swordcast · Post by **swordcast** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:37 pm

If you know what IP address your Linkstation is, it would be this: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000/

dgelowe · Post by **dgelowe** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:35 am

Olly - If it's a remote PC then you will have to open up port 9000 on your router/firewall too.

But I think there's a bug in twonky's webserver. The homepage loads fine, as does clicking on any of PC / 320x240 / 240x320. But once the music/photos/videos media tree is displayed, you cannot procede further cos links point to twonky's local IP ie

http://my.homeip.net:9000 - brings up twonky webbrowser
http://my.homeip.net:9000/webbrowse-e61 - 320x240 page loads fine
http://192.168.10.200:9000/webbrowse-e61/O1 - fails to load music page for obvious reasons......

btw I'm not sure I like the option of having the settings page available for remote access.......

Edit: should say I'm running 4.4.4rc1 on nas device (maxtor MSS).

ThyMaster · Post by **ThyMaster** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:06 pm

Did you also fill in the

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# Dynamic DNS
dyndns=http://my.homeip.netn:9999

# HTTP Server Port
httpport=9000

# HTTP remote port
httpremoteport=9999

entry?

For me I also needed to change the port number for remote port to a different one than the internal one is.

- ThyMaster

dgelowe · Post by **dgelowe** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:42 pm

No, haven't done that. I now see there's a sticky on this topic - I'll read through that. Thanks for the tip ThyMaster.

I had the web i/f working locally on 9000, so just assumed it would be a matter of forwarding 9000 from the outside world to gain the same functonality. Yet again twonky appears to be more feature-rich than I was aware of

ThyMaster · Post by **ThyMaster** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:34 am

dgelowe wrote: Yet again twonky appears to be more feature-rich than I was aware of

Yes, and less documented than one thinks, too

- ThyMaster

dgelowe · Post by **dgelowe** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:33 am

All working fine now ThyMaster. Well I can't be blamed for not having RTFM'd, but maybe I should have RTFF

ollymonster · Post by **ollymonster** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:39 am

I've managed to get to the same point dgelowe originally posted. In the Network part of the settings there are a couple of fields for inputting your port and local address/dyndns address for web access. Checking the ini file it appears to then update this as necessary. I'm running version 4.4.3.1

However I can't get beyond the page with the Music, Pictures and Video option, it just times out. I guess I will have to follow ThyMaster's idea of two different ports, however this requires me to manually change the ini file, and I don't seem to be able to do this......do I need a special program to edit it?

ollymonster · Post by **ollymonster** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:38 pm

Don't worry I've managed to sort it.......thanks for the previous help any way!