Can I stream my music over the internet?

[dweezil]

Hi

I have the media server running on my mac, life is good.

What I want to do it is be able to stream my music, from my mac, over the internet, to my mac book when I'm on holiday.

Can it be done? And if so how?

THANKS!

[Mr. Floppy]

Hi,

its pretty easy. Open SSH in your firewall and make it accessable from the internet (Like PAT). Download softsqueeze (java app). You can configure to tunnel it via ssh to your LMS.

With this solution I hear all my music at work.....:-)

[lrossouw]

Yes it can.

A good start is to go here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph..._another_place

[dweezil]

Hi,

its pretty easy. Open SSH in your firewall and make it accessable from the internet (Like PAT). Download softsqueeze (java app). You can configure to tunnel it via ssh to your LMS.

With this solution I hear all my music at work.....:-)

So I've added the SSH port forwarding service on my Virgin Media superhub to point to my local LMS machine.
Then I've added a dyndns host to so that my WAN address is visible and have a dyndns client running on the LMS machine.

The softsqueeze ssh stuff asks for a username password but where do I set that?

HELP!?!

I've also added port forwarding on my super hub for 9000 to pint to my LMS and tried using the dyndns:9000/stream.mp3 but that does work either!

I'd really appreciate help to show how to use softsqueeze using either method.

MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE!

[dweezil]

UPDATE:


I've added the SSH port forwarding service on my Virgin Media superhub to point to my local LMS machine.
Then I've added a dyndns host to so that my WAN address is visible and have a dyndns client running on the LMS machine.
I have enabled SSH by enabling Remote Login on the LMS (by the way it's running Snow Leopard).

I've successfully managed to login via SSH from a remote client using putty but the SoftSqueeze refuses to connect.

I have

SSH Server : <dyndns external ip address>
SSH port : 22
SSH username : <username>
SSH password : <password>

The dyndns, username and password are the same as I use in putty and it works.

But how does the the LMS machine know to send SSH traffic (port 22) to the LMS?

Any ideas?!!!

Or should I be using Squeezeplay to stream over the internet!? HELP!?! I've got this far but this last bit is doing my head in.

[pippin]

If you use SSH you'd have to set up a tunnel, don't know how to make SqueezePlay use that.

I would use a VPN or plain port forwarding.

Regarding port forwarding, here's another guide, I've written it for iPeng but it applies to SqueezePlay, too.

The one thing why in SqueezePlay's case it's especially important to use a VPN is that SqueezePlay (like the SBs) can't use dyndns, it can only use IP addresses (Settings->Advanced->Networking->Remote Libraries).
http://penguinlovesmusic.de/2011/02/...mote-playback/

[dweezil]

OH!

So now I have to try and setup a VPN connection to my mac?!

Yikes, I'm going round in circles.

What's the easiest way to get this to work at all?

Thanks a million!

[aubuti]

So now I have to try and setup a VPN connection to my mac?!

Not necessarily. See the links in post #3 and post #6. Neither require a VPN at all, although the non-VPN approach is less secure.

[pippin]

Well, you can also try to get the tunnel to work which would then expose the stream/server under localhost on a different port but that would require you to tunnel two ports (3483 and 9000) and 3483 needs to end up on 3483 again.

Can't tell you how to set up the tunnel right away, I always forget and then need to Google it myself whenever I use it (rarely).

The easiest way to set up a VPN usually is on the router itself.

[bernt]

http://www.neorouter.com/downloads.html