Connect to TV-Server over Internet? (1 Viewer)

[kilik360]

Just to verify: when connected to your TVServer PC (by the way, how do you do that, with Remote Desktop?) just open a CMD window, then enter

I'm using TeamViewer.

ping kilik360-pc

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Excellent, you have confirmed the full connectivity, so let's try to narrow things down.

1. Can this client connect to the database when at home and watch TV?
2. Verify the connection string in the file "gentle.config".
Make sure that there is not by chance an absolute IP used. If you are uncertain, please post the file

 

[hkjensen]

Client must have direct acces to database:
- set routing up for database (port 3306/MySQL)
- in Config.gentle change local name to dns-name (kilil360-pc -> dns-name)

 

[kilik360]

1. Can this client connect to the database when at home and watch TV?

Of course, everything is fine at home.

2. Verify the connection string in the file "gentle.config"

In gentle.config (from client) server=kilik360-PC

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Of course, everything is fine at home.

I like to be systematic

Hhm, those were the obvious things. What else comes to my mind now?

1. Port 3306 is routed on your server PC
2. Firewall settings allow internet access for port 3306 (TCP) on both client and server

You can at least test the client side by temporarily switching the firewall off

 

[kilik360]

- set routing up for database (port 3306/MySQL)

Already did, before the log.

- in Config.gentle change local name to dns-name (kilil360-pc -> dns-name)

I try to change the sever setting in config.gentle (from external Client) and it changes nothing. Reopened Gentle.config after the test and server changed by itself from ''my DNS'' to kilik360-PC.

 

[hkjensen]

The changes in Config.gentle must be done on the TV-Server installation