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Hi everyone, not sure if this is right place - i apologise upfront if its not - but here goes.

I have been slowly getting my ZM machine up and running and now have a fairly stable FC3 with all the patches and wireless LAN working after having to compile some kernel modules.

Anyway, been looking into port forwarding, DMZ. I understand the principles of IP address and ports (one to many kind of relationship) etc. but am still stuck.

What i would like to be able to do is access the zm webserver from outside my home network? I know it has to do with port forwarding but what port is the ZM web server on?

From machines on my home network entering http://192.168.x.x/zm gets me to the logon screen, http://192.168.x.x:80 fails

Thanks for any help

your home lan connects to the internet via a router/gateway.
your lan wil have address like 192.168.0.x etc
Your router will also have an ip address eg 212.46.74.112
You set up your port forwarding from the router to your zm box
this asumes you have a static internet ip if not u need to look at dynamic dns etc

James

You have to setup a port forwarding on your router. My cable modem ISP blocks port 80, so what I did was setup a port forwarding on another port, for example 8080, that forwards to 192.168.0.2 port 80 (my ZM server). This way, from outside, when I connect to http://1.2.3.4:8080 (1.2.3.4 would be replaced by your external IP), I automatically get routed to my internal ZM server.

How to setup the port forwarding depends on your router, you will have to read the docs, usually there is a web interface you can access to define port forwardings.