I'm trying to configure MC to play my main library from a remote location via the internet. So far, I've obtained a Windows 11 laptop, installed MC, set the license, configured the main MC instance with the library to use Media Server to share the library, and used the laptop to connect and play the main library. So far, so good, but this configuration uses the local network and I need to get it to work over the internet, not just here at home.
The documentation (
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Server#Access_from_another_PC_over_Internet) is rather brief, and I'm not a networking engineer so I'm not quite sure what to do next.
The docs talk about using the "outside address" which can be found by visiting whatsmyip.org, but that website reports the hostname, not the "outside address". Are they the same thing? And since the hostname is basically the ip address followed by a network path it's likely to change since I don't have a static ip address.
Further, when configuring MC to act as a Media Server, it talks about using port 52199, while the documentation says it defaults to using "...the first available port number between 80 and 90.the first available port number between 80 and 90.
Anybody got some more detailed instructions for making this work? I always had a team of network admins that dealt with ports and firewalls and connectivity so I'm rather ignorant of these details. I'm hesitant to just open up port 80, and frankly don't really know how to do it. I don't have a firewall, other than a standard AT&T modem and whatever Windows Defender does.
