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Since port forwarding to several workstations won't work... What should I do?

Hi all,

According to my searches here, it seems you can forward ports only to one IP at a time...
My problem is that I'm trying to run VLC on two workstations. I'm using it to load a distant playlist on an RTSP server. Which means I need to have a couple of ports forwarded to the boxes that run VLC... But currently I can male this work only on one of them.

So the question it... Would there be a way to have VLC work on several workstations behind an SME 7.2 server? If yes, how?

Thanks.

Seb.
"How high does the sycamore grows? If you cut it down, you'll never know!" - Vanessa Williams, Pocahontas.

Offline SoftDux

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Is it not possible to forwards say port 5001 to 192.168.0.10:80 (I don't know what VLC uses), and 5002 to 192.168.0.11:80 - for example? Did you try this?

... Call me stupid...
Use different ports on the two installations of VLC.
You're a genius lol!

Thanks.

Seb.
"How high does the sycamore grows? If you cut it down, you'll never know!" - Vanessa Williams, Pocahontas.

Offline Jáder

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Just my small contrib: use port number like 5xxx where xxx is the last octet of IP workstation.
So 192.168.13.105 should use 5105, 192.168.13.005 uses 5005 and so on!

That´s easiest way to remember what port to use!

Jáder

I use this schema to VNC (port 5900), so the starting 5. For Win RDP (port 3389), maybe a 33xxx or 3xxx schema.
« Last Edit: November 09, 2007, 02:30:47 PM by jader »
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heh, that's the same principle I use ;)