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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: benn600 on July 02, 2006, 03:08:23 pm
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Is there a secure way to access my music library with MC setup to serve out the collection over the internet? I would like to access it from another location but don't want to open myself up to security vulnerabilities. I am thinking Hamachi would solve the problem but I don't want to install that if I don't have to since it makes so many changes...it would, however, provide a very secure connection to my server so it is on the same network and I wouldn't have to mess with port forwarding, etc., I would just open MC and select search for server--it would detect it and start working. I'll probably re-encode to 160Kb if there aren't any problems with that since everything is in FLAC at the moment and the net probably couldn't handle that for me.
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you can either run Library Server within MC and then configure your router to forward the port from internet clients to the internal machine hosting MC. You can also enable a password in MC to authenticate connections to the library service.
If you need more secure than that, you'll need to establish a VPN tunnel into your network and then your remote client will be able to talk directly on the network either via file shares or Library Server port.
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You could also install SSHd on your home PC and then run PuTTy on your work machine and use port redirection to get your client MC talking to the server