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Software => HFS ~ HTTP File Server => router & port problems => Topic started by: velani on April 19, 2006, 02:38:47 PM

Title: VPN access - is there a trick to making it work?
Post by: velani on April 19, 2006, 02:38:47 PM

Hello,

I am dialed from home into my company servers via VPN access. When I start HFS when I am tunneled into the company, I cannot seem to get any other external computers to connect into HFS. Is ther a trick to making it work?

Any help is appreciated. This is an awesome software.

TIA

Velani

Title: VPN access - is there a trick to making it work?
Post by: rejetto on April 19, 2006, 02:42:43 PM

1. do you want to be visible by the internet or just the company LAN ?

2. did you already try to use the self test ? what did it say?

Title: VPN access - is there a trick to making it work?
Post by: velani on April 19, 2006, 02:50:49 PM

Quote from: "rejetto"

1. do you want to be visible by the internet or just the company LAN ?

2. did you already try to use the self test ? what did it say?

Hi,

Thanks so much for a quick reply.

1. I want to be visible to the internet primariliy, but would not mind learning how to be visible on company LAN.

2. I ran a self test and it came back with error:
The test failed: server does not answer.
You maybe behind a router.

Thanks

Title: VPN access - is there a trick to making it work?
Post by: rejetto on April 19, 2006, 02:56:35 PM

then you are probably behind a router.

1. see the address HFS show when you start it.
2. then use find external address.
if they are different, then you are behind a router for sure.

Title: VPN access - is there a trick to making it work?
Post by: velani on April 19, 2006, 05:05:31 PM

Hi again,

Thanks for your observation.

I am behind a router at home, and know how to use the find external IP, and to make it work.

It is the other laptop I am having trouble with, which connects from my home high speed ISP to my work computers via a secure VPN connection. Yes, the IP's are different.

My questions is whether this nice piece of software is capable of working in the my scenario?

Also, since I am on a company LAN as soon as I VPN into it, how would I find out the pieces of information I would need, such as port forwarding etc.

I would love to get this to work in my situation.

Thanks

Velani

Title: VPN access - is there a trick to making it work?
Post by: rejetto on April 19, 2006, 05:14:46 PM

sure it can work,
but for every network crossing you need necessary routing configuration.
not always you can configure routers, because not always you have the necessary rights.

i also use HFS via VPN,
my laptop --vpn-- server --internet-- clients

but this is only the topology for incoming connections, thus HFS can't find the right external address, i must input it manually.


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