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[ChrisM2]

Well, now that I'm up and running, it's time to check it out....ummmm, lol there is away to connect remotely from my house to the (Abyss)server @ work right?..if so, please drop the info here, would make my life easyer.

If it makes a diffrence, it is running on Windows Server2003 SE

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[ChrisM2]

err, saw that, no help, how about a step by step just incase we, (I), are missing somthing here.

Tried to set router to alow 9999, says it's not a port number. am i missing something?...i have my ip address at home alowed here at work on the console....that's about as far as i got. I'm testing it from my own compter on the network here at work, and still isn't lettng me in, figure it's something verry elementry, but....i'm one to miss the obvious sometimes, and I still lack some basic knowledge here, i kick myself in the head when i realize the "dumbness" of questions, and the "duh" of the answer.

[AbyssUnderground]

Its probably your router being a pain. Technology can often do that :-)

Try changing console ports and trying it in your router. It may be that your router will only allow certain ports.

That link should help if thats what you want to do.
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[Anonymoose]

May be stating the obvious here, but you are trying to configure your router at work to open port 9999, not your home router?

Also, be aware that some routers do not support loopback - accessing the local network via the internet IP. If you can connect to your main website from your PC at work via your internet IP/domain name, this does not apply here.
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[ChrisM2]

ok, I'm at home, and i can access my router at work from here. It will let me log into that with :9999 after ip addy. Yes, i was trying to set up the router at work for 9999 when it said it wasn't a valid port number. Now, this may be a dumb question, but, what do i put exacrtly as an address to reach the console at work? Maybe i have it configured right, just not going where i'm suposed to be going to reach it.

[Anonymoose]

From home - http://www.trcok.com:9999

From work, if http://www.trcok.com/ works on your PC in the office, http://www.trcok.com:9999 should also work.

If http://www.trcok.com/ doesn't work on your PC in the office you must use http://LANIPoftheserver:9999

Are you using a consumer grade or professional router at work? If you dig up the model number we can take a look at the manual and make sure you're in the right section of the configuration. If it has a web based configuration, a screenshot of the section where you're trying to enter 9999 would be useful.
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[aprelium]

ChrisM2,

You'll need to configure the port forwarding for port 9999 on your work router in a similar way to what you did for port 80.
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[ChrisM2]

the router is a Gigafast EE400-R found at http://www.gigafast.com/products/product_detail/EE400-R.htm

typeing in www.trcok.com:9999 takes me no where, where as my servr ip addy plus :9999 takes me to my router at work, from home. the www.trcok.com, can be reached from anywhere that i am at, home or work. I think Aprelium is right, it is still a setting in the router, like setting up port 80. I tried that with 9999 but you know what i typed earlyer about that. Inquisitor said to try changeing console ports, but i have expierimented with that before, and i always get a red spot flashing on the icon tray over the abyss icon, and nothing can be reached, so, i just leave it at it's default settings. If anyone has any info on my router, let me know. I will try to post screen shots of what my routers console looks like when i get a chance.

[AbyssUnderground]

Take a look at http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Gigafast/EE400-R/HTTP.htm but instead or using port 80 use port 9999 for your console port.
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[ChrisM2]

umm, :) Inquisitor... :) this is what i have been saying the whole time, i have done that, and it won't let me set the port to 9999, says it's not a valid port number.

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[ChrisM2]

refer back to my posts 2 posts ago about the red spot.

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[roganty]

I don't know if this will help.

but you could set the router at work to listen on a different port number, and then forward that traffic to the server on port 9999

for example:
router receives address: http://url:99
and forwards it to: http://lanip:9999

just a thought
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[aprelium]

ChrisM2,

In http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Gigafast/EE400-R/EE400-Rindex.htm, there are examples of port forwardings using port numbers such as 5900 (VNC) so you can try such values for the port number.

Note that from a technical point of view, any integer between 1 and 65534 is a valid TCP port number. So unless there is a limitation/bug in the router, there is no reason why it should refuse 9999.

We suggest also that you follow Roganty's suggestion: you can still use 9999 as the console port in Abyss Web Server but configure another external port on the router (any port that your will accept), and forward it to 9999 on the LAN IP.
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[phastmike]

Did you check if your firewall is blocking port 9999?

[loloyd]

you can also opt to try another port for the abyss console, maybe like port 70 or 90. you can change the abyss console port at your work pc, by first going through http://localhost:9999/console/parameters/. then, you can configure your work router to forward that port instead (70 or 90 in this example).
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[loloyd]

AbyssUnderground, my "bringing back up" old topics only annoy you and not other board members. And no matter whatever you say, no matter whatever you do, I will always do the same thing as long as I stay privileged to do such. I am bound only by my will and by my noblest intentions of not ruining the board unnecessarily. So far and to the best of my knowledge, I have stayed here peacefully and not in any confrontational manner.

Besides, any topic posted in this forum is not meant to serve only the original author or the thread starter. This is a public board. Anybody can learn from anyone else.

I will not be bound by what you say, what you do, or however you complain here. You will just have to learn to live with it.

If I ask you "nicely" to please stop complaining about such petty stuff, will you even listen?
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[Tim1681]

loloyd,

Can you please stop bringing up old topics. It is annoying.

Thank You.
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[Anonymoose]

If you weren't both busy being so anally retentive, you'd have noticed it was phastmike who resurrected the topic with

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[max_carpenter]

Hi,

I do have to agree with 'AbyssUnderground' that bringing up old topics from months ago is annoying. If the topic is of importance that can be really useful then maybe yes or as a sticky for awhile but for such topics as this which are also quite common does become quite irratating. If you reply to this one are you going to reply to all that have this topic? Yes it might be useful for some who are having problems but simply by doing a search they will find the information they are looking for and most likly be able to fix it them selfs. If not then starting a fresh topic can be very helpful.

Also saying statements like

[168pin]

lol, flamewar

Everything seems to spark a flamewar here.

And now, I've probably just added fuel to the fire, since some people don't know when to shut up.
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[Tim1681]

The problem is both sides of this argument have their points.

Of course it is 'annoying' when you respond to a post Posted 6+ months before.

But also not everyone uses the search to begin with.

When I join a forum and they have a 'Rules - PLEASE READ' as a sticky I dont read it, because I'm already a member of other forums, and most forums rules are the same. But here we've put into action new rules that most forums dont have. And people come into this forum desperate for help and just post their problem. I myself have used the search button a bunch of times and it takes awhile to get the result I'm looking for since much of the keywords that define my problem are used in countless other posts also.

So how could we improve on this issue? First thing that comes to my mind is a Forum User Contributed FAQ Section, but how to implement this and make it functional and user friendly is not my job. It is the communities. Ideas? =]
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[TRUSTAbyss]

Why don't we force people to read the FAQ when they're a first time user to the
forum. This should help solve our problems, don't you think?

[loloyd]

[AbyssUnderground]

What you don't understand is that this board is different to the one's you administer. Some of us don't like people bringing up old topics and prefer new ones to be made, because 99% of the time, the topic resurrected turns into another topic almost straight away.

EDIT: Oh, and if you think this forum is bad, you should visit a forum I go to where bringing up topics older than a month is a bannable offence. Also, flame wars is a bannable offence. Posts like this one will have me, you and various other people banned. Think yourself lucky that its not that forum. I know I do.
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