Can connect remotely from my network but not from outside.

[wigwam]

Hi Guys,

Internally

http://192.168.0.5:8080 and http://192.168.0.5:8080/sabnzbd take me to sabnzbd

Externally

http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/ takes me to my router log in.


http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/sabnzbd/ takes me to an error 404 page

I have forwarded port 8080 to any.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[shypike]

This means you cannot use 8080 as external port.
It looks like your router reserves that port for its own web server.
Try another external port.

[wigwam]

Thanks for the reply. I tried changing the port to 33675 which I picked at random but I now get this error when I start sabnzbd . . .

"Welcome to SABnzbd.py 0.5.6



    SABnzbd needs a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server.
    Port 33675 on 0:0:0:0 was tried , but it is not available.
    Some other software uses the port or SABnzbd is already running.

    Please restart SABnzbd with a different port number."

[shypike]

You can (and probably) must use different internal and external ports.
The port redirection is the connection between the two.
Keeo SABnzbd on its normal port 8080 and tell the router to
redirect its external port 33675 to the internal port 8080 on your SABnzbd system.

[wigwam]

Thanks again.

I see. Sadly my router a Netgear DG834GT doesn't offer redirecting.

[wigwam]

Does this mean the death knell for my dreams of connecting remotely to sabnzbd?

My router is very common but rather showing its age.

[john3voltas]

Wait! Don't trash the router.  ;D
There are alternative firmwares for your router.
Check out openwrt, dd-wrt and tomato.
Some of them (or all) will be able to transform your router into a nice up-to-date piece of equipment.
Cheers

Edit: seems like it is going to be tougher to find an alternative firmware than usual...
But you could try this http://dragonslight.altervista.org/ubergt/index.html
Another good thread https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=26239

[sander]

Thanks for the reply. I tried changing the port to 33675 which I picked at random but I now get this error when I start sabnzbd . . .

"Welcome to SABnzbd.py 0.5.6



    SABnzbd needs a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server.
    Port 33675 on 0:0:0:0 was tried , but it is not available.
    Some other software uses the port or SABnzbd is already running.

    Please restart SABnzbd with a different port number."

So this is the local error you get when trying to start SAB on your local machine? Very strange; port 33675 is probably *not* in use by another process. Aren't you trying to start SAB several times?

The above does not have to do with port forwarding. First make sure SABnzbd is running OK locally. After that do port fowarding, see http://portforward.com/english/routers/ ... /eMule.htm That post is about eMule, so you should choose your own port.
And it looks like your router can only forward incoming port N to lan port N. So if you put SAB on port 11333 on a local machine, remote access will also be on port 11333. That's no problem I guess.