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Blues11
Dec 14, 2011Luminary
Port mapping on Apple Time Capsule for Photos II?
I'm trying to use ReadyNAS Photos II. It works fine on the local network. However, when I try to access it from outside the LAN, I get the message "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at XX.XX.XX.XX:8086."
I'm assuming it's something I need to fix on my Apple Time Capsule/Router, but I don't know what. Has anyone come across this? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Thank you.
I'm assuming it's something I need to fix on my Apple Time Capsule/Router, but I don't know what. Has anyone come across this? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Thank you.
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- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredYou will likely need to port forward port 8086 to your ReadyNAS.
- Blues11LuminaryUnfortunately, I'm at a loss for how to do that. When I open up the Apple AirPort Utility, I go to "Internet" and then to "Port Mapping."
Then I can add a service and there are options for Public UDP Port(s), Public TCP Port(s), Private IP Address, Private UDP Port(s), and Private TCP Port(s). It requires me to select a Service from this list:
Personal File Sharing
Windows Sharing
Personal Web Sharing
Remote Logon - SSH
FTP Access
Apple Remote Desktop
Remote Apple Events
Printer Sharing
POP Mail
POP Mail with SSL
IMAP Mail
IMAP Mail with SSL
SMTP Mail
Quick Time Streaming Server
Jabber
How can I find out what service Photos II uses? And, once I select the service where do I enter 8086? It seems like it wants me to enter ports for every option except for the Private IP Address, which is defaulting to an unused TCP address on my LAN. - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredThe Public Ports would be the ones used when people remotely connect via the internet and the Private Ports would be the local one used when on the same LAN as the NAS. You want to enter 8086 for all of those. For the Private IP address you want to enter the static IP address of your NAS.
Perhaps "personal web sharing" would be the best fit. - Blues11Luminarymdgm, thanks for the additional information. I did what you suggested. Everything works fine now because I'm on the LAN. Tomorrow I'll check it from the office and see if it's good. I'll let you know.
Blues - sphardy1ApprenticeIt is not necessary to choose a service - those are there to help setup common port forwarding configurations. Just fill in the external & internal port numbers and the target IP address
- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredAh, that makes more sense. My AEBS isn't my main router, so I can't look into these things so easily.
- sphardy1ApprenticeThe service option also helps with the setup of Bonjour/mDNS when advertising services on the WAN or in a network with different subnets, but not something most home users require so can be ignored
- Blues11LuminaryGood news. Setting all the ports (private and public UDP and TCP) to 8086 did the trick. (I also selected Personal Web Sharing as the service because it seemed like the pull-down wanted me to select something.) But I tried it from my office today and it worked fine.
One thing that may just be a communication speed problem is that several times I received Flash errors ("Flash crashed") when clicking between photos rapidly. When I clicked and then waited a second or two before moving to the next, it was error-free.
Anyway, I wanted to thank you again for your help. - PhxGJJAspirantI have an iMac 27" and Time Capsule and a NV+. will port 8086 work for me? How do you know that 8086 is a good port?
where do I input the number 10.0.1.3 that shows on my NV+ in debug mode? - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredSo you have the NV+ v2? See How to tell whether I have a Duo v1 or Duo v2 or NV+ v1 or NV+ v2
Port 8086 is the default port for Photos II.
Why is your NV+ in debug mode?
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