SC on LAN

[gauss1976]

Hi,

I'm setting up SC on my machine to help out friends and family. I sit behind a router which I have set to give me a fixed IP address on my LAN of 192.160.1.151. In addition I am using DynDNS as my ISP does not issue me with a static IP address. I have also allowed/opened port 5500 in my firewall with tcp (Not udp: do I need to allow udp as well??).

What should I put in my helpdesk.txt file? (I should have mentioned that I sometimes have another PC on my LAN with a LAN address somewhere between 192.160.1.100 and 192.160.1.120)

Looking at some examples I was thinking of trying:

-plugin -connect 192.160.1.151 DynDNS Host Name:5500 -noregistry

Would this work?

All the examples I can find on the forum do not seem to have the LAN IP included in the connect line.

Many thanks.

Gauss1976.

[YY]

Looking at some examples I was thinking of trying:

-plugin -connect 192.160.1.151 DynDNS Host Name:5500 -noregistry

Would this work?

No, this is not the correct syntax, it s/b:
-plugin -connect DynDNS_Host_Name:5500 -noregistry

All the examples I can find on the forum do not seem to have the LAN IP included in the connect line.

When connect from internet, the remote client is not able to direct access your LAN IP, what they can get reach is your WAN IP (or your DynDNS Host Name if you have one configured). In order you can receive the signal, you need to make a setting at the router to transfer the SC signal to your pc -- which is usally called Port Forwarding, so what you need to do is: at the router, forward 5500 (TCP) to 192.160.1.151 (your pc).

And with this setting, only your pc will get the SC connection, and not any others (between 192.160.1.100 and 192.160.1.120).

If you are not familiar with how to configure your router, you may check www.portforward.com/routers.htm , which may have the instruction of your model.

[gauss1976]

Excellent! Many thanks for your help YY, I now understand.

Gauss1976