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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: hatsa on January 23, 2009, 08:27:00 AM

Title: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: hatsa on January 23, 2009, 08:27:00 AM: hi all i have static ip and when i type it in the explorer it's open the router
i want when i type http://mystaticip/server-manager open the server manager
do any body know how to do this
Title: Re: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: Stefano on January 23, 2009, 08:40:52 AM: hi

if you do a little search, you'll see that yours is a FAQ :-)

anyway, opening server-manager on the wan side is a bad idea..

you'd better use vpn or ssh tunnel to connect to your SME and open server-manager

HTH
ciao
Stefano
Title: Re: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: hatsa on January 23, 2009, 08:45:08 AM: ok i want to open the ssh how
Title: Re: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: Stefano on January 23, 2009, 08:51:01 AM: Quote from: hatsa on January 23, 2009, 08:45:08 AM
ok i want to open the ssh how

reading the manual is always the best choiche.. read here (http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter11)

Ciao
Stefano
Title: Re: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: chris burnat on January 23, 2009, 09:08:35 AM: Quote from: hatsa on January 23, 2009, 08:27:00 AM
hi all i have static ip and when i type it in the explorer it's open the router
i want when i type http://mystaticip/server-manager open the server manager
do any body know how to do this

I suspect that the static IP you have is the IP address given by your ISP to your router, not the IP address of your server, correct?

If this is the case, there are a few things to setup before you can reach server-manager remotely from another network, may it be using https, VPN or ssh.

So that we can help you, tell us about your server: do you have one or two LAN cards?
And what is the IP address for each card?

[I am also moving this topic to the server section where it is more appropriate, you issue has nothing to do with contributions as far as I can tell.]
Title: Re: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: CharlieBrady on January 23, 2009, 03:43:42 PM: Quote from: chris burnat on January 23, 2009, 09:08:35 AM
So that we can help you, tell us about your server: do you have one or two LAN cards?
And what is the IP address for each card?

I doubt that either is relevant to us. The issue is in the router, not SME. The router needs to be set up to do port forwarding (or needs to be set into bridge mode).
Title: Re: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: chris burnat on January 24, 2009, 12:49:54 AM: Quote from: CharlieBrady on January 23, 2009, 03:43:42 PM
I doubt that either is relevant to us. The issue is in the router, not SME. The router needs to be set up to do port forwarding (or needs to be set into bridge mode).

Hello Charlie. I was just trying to assist a new user who appears to have little understanding of networking or how SME works. This is demonstrated by his attempt at accessing server-manager remotely using the http protocol... Answers to my questions would have told me a fair bit about his network, allowing guidance in the form: "you have to setup port forwarding between this IP and that IP address", or whatever. Thanks for taking over.
Title: Re: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: hatsa on January 25, 2009, 07:35:01 AM: i have two LAN cards

10.0.0.1 this is the local lan card
10.0.0.102 and this is the internet lan card
Title: Re: i want to access my sme server from the internet
Post by: Boris on January 25, 2009, 08:15:06 AM: Hatsa, both of your problems (the other thread about URL not working) is because of the wrong SME configuration.
If you have WAN Router you only need single LAN card (unless you have advanced network setup, which I doubt) and configure you SME as a server-only.
If you have direct (bridge) access to Internet you WAN and LAN subnets have to be different or no routing will occur on SME.
Can you explain in more details you connection configuration and all the device that you have like modems, routers, switches, servers? Also would be helpful some info on the purpose of the server (web server, Internet connection sharing, file sharing, e-mail server etc...)