WHS 2011 Firewall Issues

[jonwestuk]

After much searching on the web and this forum I am still stuck so hope you can help.

I have just built a Windows Home Server 2011 machine (basically a customised version of server 2008 R2) on which I would like to run SabNZBD. The setup went well and I can access SabNZBD perfectly and get it running and downloading from the local user account.

However, when trying to access it from another PC, the browser takes about 5 minutes to find SabNZBD and is the stupidly slow to bring back pages.

Disabling the firewall on the WHS 2011 machine resolves the issue but this is not a long term solution. I have tried opening up the ports on the server. I have even tried opening up all the parts in and out of SabNZBD without any success.

Not being an expert in the Server 2008 R2 firewall I am wondering if any of you kind people can send me some pointers as to how I need to set up the firewall to allow the web page to connect with the firewall enabled.

Thanks,

Jon

[shypike]

Windows7 and Server2008 sometimes have very odd behaviour
because they give preference to IPV6 addresses.
How did you set the host address for SABnzbd?
Make sure it's an IPV4 address.

[jonwestuk]

Thanks for your response. I think the host is set-up properly. I have it set to empty/blank.

empty = Finds and listens on your local (ipv4) ip address.

[shypike]

It's only that "blank" may very well select an IPV6-based address,
because that's what the OS prefers.
You should use a name that resolves to IPV4 or just use
the numerical IP, assuming that you have fixed one for the server.