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hitman07
8th September, 2008, 11:49 AM
Hi all, i remember seeing a programme that you can access your dreambox remote control on the internet or something and im wondering if its possible to access it from another place and what the website or programme is. any help is much appreciated.

^^MaXiMo II^^
8th September, 2008, 01:23 PM
if your dreambox is connected to the internet just digit in your browser your hostname or your db ip address you will get the webif of your db there you can select: remote control etc etc

hitman07
8th September, 2008, 01:52 PM
When i type my db ip address in the address bar at work it just gives me a msn search

Curious123
8th September, 2008, 04:19 PM
If your dreambox is connected to the internet through your router than it is a little bit more involved to access it over the internet. You need to set up dns hostname and than you need to make sure that you port forward this dns hostname through router to your dreambox.

^^MaXiMo II^^
8th September, 2008, 07:06 PM
If you have not a host name set up, simply direct your browser to the port that you opened for your db to connect on the internet, for example if you opened port 80 in your router and your ip address is 73.54.89.0 type in your browser: http://73.54.89.0:80

hitman07
10th September, 2008, 01:43 PM
i have tried this but it still doesnt work from my work pc. it works from my home pc tho

^^MaXiMo II^^
10th September, 2008, 02:00 PM
if it doesnt work take curious123 advice and set up a hostname

hitman07
10th September, 2008, 02:12 PM
Im not sure how to actually set up a hostname, can anyone please help me?

^^MaXiMo II^^
10th September, 2008, 02:47 PM
create an account here is free

https://www.dyndns.com

hitman07
10th September, 2008, 02:52 PM
Is this the same as a no ip address name?? sorry if i sound silly

^^MaXiMo II^^
10th September, 2008, 02:54 PM
Is this the same as a no ip address name?? sorry if i sound silly

yep is same
you can use either i like dyndns :)

hitman07
10th September, 2008, 02:55 PM
i have already got one setup for that, but i dunno what to do next

Curious123
10th September, 2008, 03:17 PM
If you have already set up dns hostname for your dreambox than you need to set your router to forward the request to your dreambox. Have read through this for port forwarding routers ;

PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall (http://portforward.com/routers.htm)

@DF apologies for attaching external link, delete if inapropriate.

hitman07
10th September, 2008, 03:23 PM
Yeah i have done all that, what do i need to type in to access the site? sorry again for the stupidity of me

Curious123
10th September, 2008, 07:27 PM
Yeah i have done all that, what do i need to type in to access the site? sorry again for the stupidity of me

Not sure about anyone else but you have lost me now; are you talking about the dyndns site, port forwarding site or your dns host?

dark84
10th September, 2008, 09:44 PM
Probe number one

hitman07
11th September, 2008, 01:13 PM
i have done the dns and i just want to know which port to forward

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i have forwared ports 21, 23, 80 and have the no ip set up and i still cant acces it. am i still doing something wrong?

Curious123
11th September, 2008, 01:26 PM
When someone types in the dns hostname of your dreambox on the web, your router needs to pick that up and redirect it to the dreambox via your internal ip address. For example if your host is hitman.dyndns.org than the dyndns.org site will recognise that address and send it to your modem which in turn sends it to your router which in turn must translate the request and send it to specific device i.e your dreambox. So you need to go into router and set up a rule or service which when it recieves a request from hitman.dyndn.org send it to i.e 198.168.1.100 the ip address of your dreambox. Port 80 is open by default for web access on your router .

hitman07
11th September, 2008, 02:07 PM
im using the bt home hub. do i do this in the same part as port forwarding?

Curious123
11th September, 2008, 02:22 PM
Sorry but don't have a BT Home hub so can't really help tell you the exact details for the configuration.