Topic: NAPSTER

[John Sadie]

How do I get Napster to work via an e-smith server?

It wont accept the SOCKS 4 or 5 settings, or I may be just doing it wrong.


THX

John Sadie

[Scott Duncan]

e-smith uses Network Address Translation (NAT), so NO firewall settings will work. Set up Napster as if you were connected DIRECT to the Internet. It works for me

[John Sadie]

Thx

It would work, except that my ADSL modem needs to have the relevant ports opened. Which ports do Napster require?

[jason]

you dont have to have any ports open, unless you plan on sharing out your files on napster. Since e-smith is using NAT you are unble to do that. You would have to setup port forwarding, and have another static ip from your service provider.  If you are just trying to connect to the napster server dont use proxy settings, use the dedicated option or lan.  It works great for me.  you just cant share files. hope this helps.

[Henry]

I have Napster set up on one of the clients (win98) behind an e-smith server. We can download files and according to my son, upload stuff as well. When we set it up, we used the direct internet connection and gave it a port number to use.

This seems to contradict the previous posts comments about the inability to upload.

As an aside, did I comprimise the security of my network by defining a port?

Tnx....

Henry

[Jeb Campbell]

You can upload, but only to other napster users that aren't nat'ed.
No -- no compromise in security by defining a port (you have to),
but if you are concerned about security don't run napster at all.

[Damien Curtain]

> but if you are concerned about security don't run napster at
> all.

I think thats the key statement so far. And if your concerned about bandwith monopolisation by unproductive people, dont run napster.
--
 Damien

[Henry]

Thanks for your input. Security isn't a real big issue. I'm just a small home network with a slow dial-up connection. I just didn't want to have opened the door and put out the welcome mat for the script kiddies. The unproductive bandwidth use is the crux issue here. I've made some house rules about when Napster use can happen and that seems to have solved that problem.

Henry

[Duncan Maitland]

Just in case you're still wondering about how to set up port forwarding for Napster, there is a Mini-HOWTO on just this subject, it can be found at http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/IPMasquerading+Napster.html

I have had it set up under e-smith and full Napster upload/download is supported.