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Title: Help - Media Server.
Post by: phatanhappy on May 03, 2003, 09:31:03 am

I have a new system setup and it works fine inside my house behind my hardware firewall(D-link 704p).  I have attached a client and it plays music.  I am trying to access my files via the internet remotly.  I had installed the latest software on both sides (9.0.168) and set the firewall to "DMZ" which passes everthing it gets to my media server - no port filtering what so ever.  The remote client appears to communicate - as I can see the login attempt - but then I get the following message:  
05/03/03 13:14:44 - Current Connections: 1
05/03/03 13:14:44 - sharing thread started
05/03/03 13:14:44 - sending 400
05/03/03 13:14:44 - Invalid Media Server protocol attempted.
05/03/03 13:14:44 - ready for another connection
05/03/03 13:14:44 - sharing thread exiting
05/03/03 13:14:45 - received a connection
05/03/03 13:14:45 - Current Connections: 1
05/03/03 13:14:45 - ready for another connection
05/03/03 13:14:45 - sharing thread started
05/03/03 13:14:45 - sending 400
05/03/03 13:14:45 - Invalid Media Server protocol attempted.
05/03/03 13:14:45 - sharing thread exiting

Then it hangs up.

Operating system on both sides = XP
Ram on both side =512
CPU on both sides =2.6ghz
Fully service packed and patched.

Title: Re: Help - Media Server.
Post by: tom-chang on May 03, 2003, 01:59:17 pm

DO you have all your other apps running through the firewall?  I have problems using my Netgear Wireless Router when I set my main PC as the DMZ zone.  Nothing seems to properly communicate with it.  When I removed it from the DMZ, and manually set all the ports I needed, it works fine.

Title: Re: Help - Media Server.
Post by: phatanhappy on May 03, 2003, 02:28:57 pm

I have since removed my firewall from the mix.  
The computer operating on a 192.168.0.X subnet streams media just fine.  On the internet - I cant get connect - I am hoping to get another computer to test with later tonight.  Any thoughs would be appreciated though

Title: Re: Help - Media Server.
Post by: phatanhappy on May 04, 2003, 03:55:31 pm

ok,   I fixed it.  It involved going into the settings are connecting it to the proper library so it now works.  Thanks to all who tried.

p.s. - my firewall is back up, the DMZ is turned off and I am only passing 1 port from the firewall to the media server.

Title: Re: Help - Media Server.
Post by: John Gateley on May 05, 2003, 09:33:14 am

HI Phantan,

Can you give more details? The error message looks like the firewall was changing the data stream somehow. How exactly did you fix this?

j

Title: Re: Help - Media Server.
Post by: phatanhappy on May 05, 2003, 03:13:29 pm

I believe the setting that fixed the problem was:
file
   Library
         Library manager
               Add   [enter settings here]

Then I deleted the default, but I dont think that made a diffence.
I will be doing my testing later and nail it down.