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PseudoResonance
Jul 11, 2017Aspirant
Port Forward ReadyShare Network Neighborhood/MacShare Through Primary Router
Hello, I'm working on setting up my new Netgear Router to host a file server for me from a hard drive connected via the eSata port. I got the server working, but because I have a crazy setup of a mo...
- Jul 13, 2017
Not sure what happened, but it spontaneously started working. Perhaps a restart fixed it, not sure.
PseudoResonance
Jul 11, 2017Aspirant
Just to add to this, I found out that the reason I can access the file server from it's assigned internal IP is simply because of NAT Loopback... So it's not exactly "getting out" of it's private network. Is this just a limitation of the software?
- PseudoResonanceJul 13, 2017Aspirant
Not sure what happened, but it spontaneously started working. Perhaps a restart fixed it, not sure.