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Uninstall any antivirus other than Windows Defender.  Configure it.

Are you sure JRiver's Media Network is running?   You could move it to another port.  52150, for example.

Firewalls are also a possible problem. 

Read Network Access on the wiki.

At this point, unless you have some other security software installed, the most likely cause is still the router.

Is there some utility I can run that is independent of MC that will determine if port forwarding is working correctly?  My understanding is that if the traffic makes it to the studyPC2 then MC will know what to do with it.  Something as simple as ping?

AT&T claims that there is no firewall stopping network traffic, but who knows if their techs really understand what's going on.
 

I'm not aware of any additional security software that might be installed, but the anti-virus providers really like to install their stuff without you knowing so there may be something, but I'm not seeing anything suspicious in the process list, although there are a lot of things running that I don't know what they are.

If you pick backup from the file menu it asks you to specify a path. If you run an automatic, the path is in options.

Try other paths.

Added a file to Library and, per usual, attempted Library Backup which failed in several attempts.
Not a problem previously.
I do not even know where the Backups are stored.

I went through this a while ago. The problem was that Comcast has an Advanced Security feature which blocked the port forwarding. Once I turned that off, everything worked. Are there any security settings on your Gateway that you can turn off as a test? Grasping at straws.

There's a section on the router UI for NAT/Gaming that turns on port forwarding, so one would expect that to turn on port forwarding. There's the firewall advanced tab which reports that all these are off:

Drop incoming ICMP Echo requests to LAN   
Drop incoming ICMP Echo requests to Device LAN Address   
Drop incoming ICMP Echo requests to Device WAN Address   
Reflexive ACL    
ESP ALG    
SIP ALG

I don't think I need to enable any of these.

I do not manually set the ip.

Here's what the router reports:

MAC Address   b8:ca:3a:95:21:8f
IPv4 Address / Name   192.168.1.68 / studyPC2
Last Activity   Thu Nov 21 10:36:27 2024
Status   on
Allocation   dhcp
Connection Type    

Ethernet LAN-4

Connection Speed    100Mbps fullduplex
Mesh Client   No
IPv6 Address   2600:1700:37af:b010::48
Type   dhcp
Valid Lifetime   2592000s
Preferred Lifetime   604800s
IPv6 Address   2600:1700:37af:b010:660:4d7a:8dc0:6bd8
Type   slaac
Valid Lifetime   3600s
Preferred Lifetime   3600s
IPv6 Address   2600:1700:37af:b010:c10c:5d77:7753:9aca
Type   slaac
Valid Lifetime   3600s
Preferred Lifetime   3600s
IPv6 Address   fe80::e9cc:7bb3:f6c6:ff65
Type   slaac
Valid Lifetime   forever
Preferred Lifetime   forever

Most people can get this to work, yes. There are however many ways to have networking issues, this is not an MC problem per se. MC is working as you can reach it via the local LAN address.

Did you manually assign IP 192.168.1.68 to your PC, or is it automatic (DHCP) ? If it's manually set (static) your router may be forwarding to the wrong IP address. Check the router to see if it knows StudyPC2 maps to 192.168.1.68.

At this point, unless you have some other security software installed, the most likely cause is still the router.

I went through this a while ago. The problem was that Comcast has an Advanced Security feature which blocked the port forwarding. Once I turned that off, everything worked. Are there any security settings on your Gateway that you can turn off as a test? Grasping at straws.

Port forwarding is still in place and I've rebooted the modem.  I'll try rebooting everything in the morning and trying again. Thanks for all your effort. Hopefully we can see this through.

Restarted everything this morning and I'm still basically exactly where I was when I started.  Media Center works fine when on the same LAN as the library, but can't connect from the outside.

Any ideas?  Port forwarding is in place, MC 32 is granted access to communicate through the firewall, the ip address looks right.  This was supposed to be "not that hard", but it seems to be quite difficult.  Is anybody else able to make this work?

Thanks for the fast reply! This was easier than I thought...