Topic: First time SME user having trouble. Help!

[tavys]

First of all, I'm loving SME.  I've made myself a tiny webserver out of a VIA EPIA-M1000 Mini-ITX motherboard with two IDE drives mirrored.  I really like that SME knew what to do with my dual hard drives right off the bat.

Now to the problem.  I've registered tavys.dyndns.org and it works.  I installed ddclient to get dyndns to update and I think I got that to work (I guess I'll find out tomorrow if my new IP shows up...)  Unfortunately, when I point my browser to tavys.dyndns.org, I get my router.  How do I get past my router and to the SME server's site?  

I've tried port forwarding using port 8080 instead of the regular 80, and then I get a connection rejected message.  I put my SME machine on my router's DMZ, so I figured it would make it through, but I guess not.

What's the trick here?

[Michiel]

when I point my browser to tavys.dyndns.org, I get my router.  How do I get past my router and to the SME server's site?  

The problem lies with your router. See your router's manual if you can configure it for bridgemode and let the SME server do all the routing.

If you have separate modem and router, you're even better off connecting the modem straight to your server and use the router as paperweight

Michiel

[Anonymous]

I guess I'd have to put a second NIC into my SME box for that, right?  I have onboard LAN on the EPIA board, and a US Robotics wireless card in the one PCI slot.  It worked fine under Windows, but I don't know if it's supported in Linux.  SME didn't detect it.

How would I go about finding a driver for it and installing it, anyway?

One of the two hard drives in my SME box makes that high pitched spinning whine noise, so I'd like to be able to stick this thing off in some hidden corner of another room and connect everything else to it through the wireless router.

[Anonymous]

Continuing on my last post...

My original plan had been to use only the wireless NIC and need only a power cable attached to this server to make it easy to stash somewhere.  It would be just another box on my LAN rather than my gateway.  My hardware router has made a pretty good firewall.  With it's web interface disabled to the outside world, every one of my ports is stealth.

What are the advantages of using the SME box as my gateway/router?  Also, I tried turning that feature on, and the setup mentioned some mode (don't remember what it was called) where it could do that with only one ethernet port.  Does that actually work?

[crazybob]

The gateway/router configuration works. I had some problens when trying to use a hardware router with my e-smith system, and some one told me to ditch the router, and things smoothed out greatly. The builtin firewall is very good, and I have had no trouble being hacked. I am using my system as a webserver and it works great. Just add the second nic, and hook the local nic to a hub and you are good to go.

As far as the wireless nic, it is doubtfull you will find support.

Bob