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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: NY40Male on December 11, 2002, 06:44:37 am

Title: Media Server ver9
Post by: NY40Male on December 11, 2002, 06:44:37 am

Connecting To An Internal Server Is Easy
How Does One Connect To An External Server?
ie: 24.29.58.128:81

Title: Re: Media Server ver9
Post by: nila on December 11, 2002, 06:53:28 am

m01p://TheIPaddressYouWantHere:ThePortYouWantHere

Add that as a new library using the library manager.

Could i possible suggest that this is made more basic though with a button to 'add server' which then just asks for the IP and port and creates all this for us.
No one is going to know how to do that without being told.

Title: Re: Media Server ver9
Post by: NY40Male on December 11, 2002, 05:23:19 pm

I Would Think So...Don't Know If Everyone Is Gonna
Remember The m01p Part...Connect To Server In Version 8 Was Pretty Damn Idiot Proof

Title: Re: Media Server ver9
Post by: nila on December 11, 2002, 11:44:11 pm

Yeah, in 9 I think it was more targetted to local libraries which are now automatically found and so it is meant to make it even easier.

For remote libraries though it has become harder as a result.

Title: Re: Media Server ver9
Post by: jakobluck on December 12, 2002, 04:19:43 am

for some reason, i can't connect to my roommate's computer over the network, using the "find media servers" command -- using the IP works fine but then it is connecting over the internet and not via the network. the connection appears to start, but then ends with an "unable to connect to server" error. anybody know how to fix this?

Title: Re: Media Server ver9
Post by: JimH on December 12, 2002, 03:14:57 pm

Connecting to a specific IP address, by itself, doesn't mean that the connection is made over the Internet.

The configuration issue will be addressed.  I agree with you, Nila.