are there any benefits of creating a vpn and using it on my g1? i was thinking of streaming videos over the internet to my phone for when im elsewhere.
can anyone point me to novice instructions on how to set one up.
what would be useful is the ability to set up a vpn and have a shared drive that can be accessed like you would if you shared a folder to another pc.
i know of drop box and the like but im sure the quality of the pictures i transfer has gone down. is this the case?
Is there a reason why you need to stream videos over a VPN? You could use a webserver instead? Setting up VPN servers/clients &/or webservers can be tricky...even more so if you then want to mount a remote filesystem after you establish a VPN.
well i dont just wanna use it to stream audio and video. i want it for transferring files across via the net when im not at my pc. i know i can use dropbox for this but like i said, im sure the quality is reduced on images i have transfered through that, or am i imagining it.
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Is it possible to access my files / shares over the internet ? Whats the best program to use ? Are there any programs like RealVNC that offer file access options as well as remote control options ? If preferable something with a password that I can save on my wizard so I dont have to keep typing it in all the time.
I have wifi at work so want to be able to access my files that are at home while I am in work like my mp3's. Would they stream ok ?
I think you can stream your mp3s to your wizard if you run slimserver from slimdevices on your home pc and a client on your wizard (though I haven't tried it myself) - take a look at the forums on their website.
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Actually is it streaming ? I just want access to my files, is that one in the same thing ?
Sorry, this is an app which (in effect) enables you to stream (ie play) a music file on your home pc (running slimserver) and listen to it remotely on a client device (e.g. your pda). It doesn't allow you to pick up the music file itself over the internet.
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I can access the shares on my home PC over WiFI using Total Commander but I cant seem to play music directly. I have to copy it across first. It gives a funny error message in WMP if I try to stream it. I will post the error message later.
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Is it possible to access my files / shares over the internet ? Whats the best program to use ? Are there any programs like RealVNC that offer file access options as well as remote control options ? If preferable something with a password that I can save on my wizard so I dont have to keep typing it in all the time.
I have wifi at work so want to be able to access my files that are at home while I am in work like my mp3's. Would they stream ok ?
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You would need a Static IP address on your Home broadband connection to do this, not many home broadband packages give you a static IP just a dynamic address that changes at whim.
Presuming you have a static IP you could then get yourself a DAMN good firewall and install Microsoft IIS on your PC to make it a webserver, then get yourself a domain name and point it at your PC. (slightly simplified example above there, but I'm sure you get the drift)
There are probably apps around to do this much sipler but you'd need to google for them. pretty sure that there is a specific version of VNC and PC anywhere that will do what you want
knowsleyroader said:
Is it possible to access my files / shares over the internet ? Whats the best program to use ? Are there any programs like RealVNC that offer file access options as well as remote control options ? If preferable something with a password that I can save on my wizard so I dont have to keep typing it in all the time.
I have wifi at work so want to be able to access my files that are at home while I am in work like my mp3's. Would they stream ok ?
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You would need a Static IP address on your Home broadband connection to do this, not many home broadband packages give you a static IP just a dynamic address that changes at whim.
Presuming you have a static IP you could then get yourself a DAMN good firewall and install Microsoft IIS on your PC to make it a webserver, then get yourself a domain name and point it at your PC. (slightly simplified example above there, but I'm sure you get the drift)
There are probably apps around to do this much sipler but you'd need to google for them. pretty sure that there is a specific version of VNC and PC anywhere that will do what you want
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knowsleyroader said:
Is it possible to access my files / shares over the internet ? Whats the best program to use ? Are there any programs like RealVNC that offer file access options as well as remote control options ? If preferable something with a password that I can save on my wizard so I dont have to keep typing it in all the time.
I have wifi at work so want to be able to access my files that are at home while I am in work like my mp3's. Would they stream ok ?
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You would need a Static IP address on your Home broadband connection to do this, not many home broadband packages give you a static IP just a dynamic address that changes at whim.
Presuming you have a static IP you could then get yourself a DAMN good firewall and install Microsoft IIS on your PC to make it a webserver, then get yourself a domain name and point it at your PC. (slightly simplified example above there, but I'm sure you get the drift)
There are probably apps around to do this much sipler but you'd need to google for them. pretty sure that there is a specific version of VNC and PC anywhere that will do what you want
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Well I could always just take a note of my pc ip address and as my pc is on a lot of the time it can remain the same for some time. Yeah I thought VNC could do something like that but there doesnt seem to be any option for it.
Static IP, pah!
www.dyndns.org (or many others) give your dynamic IP a static DNS name eg yourname.dyndns.org and then all you need to do is:
1) Manually update your IP
OR
2) Configure your router to update you IP (available on some routers)
OR
3) Get some software to update your IP (lots available, use google)
Now your home network has a static name to access it for any purpose - just change the port on the end
I have web on 80, ftp on 21 and a socks proxy all running - just need to forward the ports on the router
You need ORB!
I use it and can acces all my photo's, MP3's and even movies that are on my home-pc streaming over internet. It works even with GPRS, but with WIFI it works really great.
See www.orb.com
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I can access the shares on my home PC over WiFI using Total Commander but I cant seem to play music directly. I have to copy it across first. It gives a funny error message in WMP if I try to stream it. I will post the error message later.
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I get the same; use TCPMP and it works fine
N!co said:
You need ORB!
I use it and can acces all my photo's, MP3's and even movies that are on my home-pc streaming over internet. It works even with GPRS, but with WIFI it works really great.
See www.orb.com
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Isnt there some way of doing it with resco and your ip address ? maybe opening a really obscure port on the router and firewall ? Not sure how those companies work but im a little concerned about my data going through their servers which I presume it is ?
Would just be so much simpler if there was some way of doing it with resco like I do on my home wifi.
files wirelessly between my Blackstone and my laptop ?. I do not like bluetooth.
Can I also stream movies?
Bluetooth is easiest if you are only sending single files.
FTP is easiest to access files on your PC from your handset if you don't know how to create shares and access them over networks. To do this, you will need to run an FTP server application on yout PC (Filezilla is a good one), and a client on your handset.
If you understand network shares, then you simply need to make the folders where files you wish to access reside network shares. Doing things this way means you can stream music and movies.
There are literally thousands of sites which will teach you how to set-up network shares depending on your operating system.
Likewise there are many which teach you how to run FTP servers.
You can now simply browser your server from the phone's browser since it has Flash support! No more need for the separate Android app.
And for those who have no idea what I am talking about, Subsonic is a music server to access your home music anywhere on the Internet.
It's fairly easy to get working:
1. Install Subsonic on your home PC
2. If you have a dynamic IP from your Internet provider, get a DynDNS account.
3. If you're behind a router, forward the port your Subsonic server is using to the correct PC's IP
4. Browse to your web server and login to your music
5. Rock out with your **** out.
i recently heard about this client as well as other streaming ones such as ampache. i'm interested in trying them seeing as my 16gb sd card is just about full w/ music. realized i need to save some space for when we get apps2sd capability. it's sad though because once the clients start talking about separate servers, MySQL, ip's, and such, i get a bit lost. =|
Well, I can say this... Subsonic does not require you to "activate" or install any other web server. It installs it's self as it's own web server. All you need to know is how to properly route your external incoming traffic to the proper PC running the server. Subsonic has it's own few quirks, but nothing I could get over.
Thinking about getting my wife a Xoom to somewhat replace her aged W7 laptop. However, we have numerous shares on a Windows Home Server which she uses for blogging, Facebook, extra storage, etc.
Anyone know of an easy way to access these shares via the Xoom? Not interested in the ability to stream but just accessing pictures, documents, etc that are stored on the WHS without having to create a "remote desktop" type of connection. Also ability to send items to the WHS for storage/backup.
Thanks.
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Thinking about getting my wife a Xoom to somewhat replace her aged W7 laptop. However, we have numerous shares on a Windows Home Server which she uses for blogging, Facebook, extra storage, etc.
Anyone know of an easy way to access these shares via the Xoom? Not interested in the ability to stream but just accessing pictures, documents, etc that are stored on the WHS without having to create a "remote desktop" type of connection. Also ability to send items to the WHS for storage/backup.
Thanks.
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I use AndroXplorer and it also works on xoom.
What about try something like this?
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=2828
Using ES File Explorer I can browse my LAN, transfer files and even stream some types of media files directly to the XOOM.
If you set up the remote access in the WHS console, you should be good to access it with a web browser. You can't do the Remote Desktop without IE which is a drawback for me.
Great.....sounds like there are a few options. I wasn't sure if 2.2 apps would run on Honeycomb. Guessing they will from these replies.
As for Dropbox, not sure if it is what I need for shares but setting up a service might be good for other things cause I use it quite a bit.
Thanks.
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If you set up the remote access in the WHS console, you should be good to access it with a web browser. You can't do the Remote Desktop without IE which is a drawback for me.
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I briefly tested WHS access on my XOOM and was able to sign in via the web. Like you said, there was no remote access, but I could access my shares. Is there anything specifically you'd like me to try?
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Great.....sounds like there are a few options. I wasn't sure if 2.2 apps would run on Honeycomb. Guessing they will from these replies.
As for Dropbox, not sure if it is what I need for shares but setting up a service might be good for other things cause I use it quite a bit.
Thanks.
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I was able to see all of my server media using Skifta (DLNA server app) when I tried the other day, but it failed to load videos. I'm sure this is a codec problem or something and will be remedied over time.
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I was able to see all of my server media using Skifta (DLNA server app) when I tried the other day, but it failed to load videos. I'm sure this is a codec problem or something and will be remedied over time.
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Good info to know. Again...not worried about streaming. Just wanted to make sure the ability to access shares was there (say if I wanted to pull a document or picture off of it).
Thanks.
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I briefly tested WHS access on my XOOM and was able to sign in via the web. Like you said, there was no remote access, but I could access my shares. Is there anything specifically you'd like me to try?
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I was able to remote access the shares on my Xoom to my WHS but when I try and download a file, it downloads a web page html file, I'm guess it is the remote access file explorer screen, not the file. For example if I have a file "status.txt" I'll remote access to the WHS, then download the file, I get "status.htm" downloaded, not the text file. Opening it I see html code which is far beyond what I know.
I want to share files with an iphone user and a pc.
Is there an app that creates an ad-hoc network and create a web file server to do this?
I know there are apps for both these things separately, but I don't need to tether and I wanted a single button to do all (and I don't even know if combining apps would allow me to do this).
As an added bonus, if the created web server allows uploading files it would also allow to get files from iOS and pc.
Is there an app for this?
The easiest method that comes to mind is that you can turn most Android devices into a Samba file sharing server, which would be easily accessible from Windows, and most likely in iOS too provided you have the proper client app installed. The only problem is that to set up a Samba server in Android, you need to root your device first. Samba Filesharing in the Market will help you set it up once you're rooted. I don't have an iOS device so I've never been able to try it, but I've read that NetPortal on iOS is a good app for accessing CIFS/SMB shares.
Setting up a Samba server doesn't necessarily create an ad hoc network as well, though. That's something you'll need to configure separately, usually via another third party app, like Wireless Tether.
I use file expert, it creates an ftp server, it's very handy to use....
on my htc magic I use "remote web desktop" but it doesn't work on my transformer...
Dropbox. Everyone should have it, use it, love it
Seriously I use it all the time to keep everything sync'd up on 4 PC's and 2 mobile devices, as hosting for all the things I post online and to share / sync folders with friends (shared collection of ebooks ftw).
I know its not quite 'on the fly' as you were after but its an option
I would have suggested Dropbox, but cloud storage is still much slower than a local server, and is fairly limited in maximum storage. With Samba or FTP, you can use massive external hard drives to host your content, which I'm assuming the OP plans on doing.