Port through Public IP to FreeNAS server

[urfriendlyvirus]

Hi Guys!

So I am in a bit of a pickle. I have hit a brick wall on what to do from here. So I have a virtual FreeNAS server running from VMPlayer and I want to allow my friends to connect to my media server from their houses, but I don't want to buy a domain. Is there a way to port them to it when they connect to my Public IP? I am willing to use another program if necessary. I have looked at Filezilla, but have the same issue.

Any help would be fantastic. Thanks so much guys.

-UrFriendlyVirus

 

[tomatthe]

If VMPlayer only looks on a local network, I know there are programs that you can use to trick connections into thinking you and someone else are one the same network. I used to use one to play WC3 with a buddy of mine in .ca and it worked great. There are also routers that support vpns, and will connect directly with each other so your machines think they are on the same local network.

Regardless I highly doubt you will have enough upstream to actually let people stream content from your machine at any decent rate. Setting up an sftp server so they can connect and just copy the files you have is probably a better way of going about it, and you could set a limit on bandwidth it allowed so it wouldn't hammer your connection. Assuming its all legal to distribute etc.

 

[urfriendlyvirus]

First off, thank you for responding. And I may have been not sing the right wording. I want my brother who is at college to be able to access our home network where I have a digital library of movies he purchased when he lived here. So I think that is within fair-use. Anyway, you are right about not being able to "stream". But I am just having trouble getting him to connect to our network. Any other ideas?

 

[tomatthe]

http://forums.freenas.org/archive/index.php/t-2005.html

Maybe try reading through that post, it's on how to setup access to a freeNAS server from outside the local network.

 

[urfriendlyvirus]

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