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Local network problems

I am running xubnutu 12.04 and I am trying to port forward my computer. The problem is that nothing seems to find the computer. The address, which ifconfig and my router says, is 192.168.0.16. The ...
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How to open a particular port in ubuntu?

My SoulSeek client Nicotine+ checks my open ports during initial configuration and promts that the one port number it needs is closed, cutting me off frmo about 50% of the users. Is there anyway I can ...
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How to SSH on a port other than 22

I have two computers behind the same router. Let's call them A and B. A can SSH to B in the following manner: ssh usr@<internal ip of computer> B can SSH to A by doing the same, but the ...
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Why does Transmission report port as “closed”? [closed]

I've been doing some Torrenting, and I wanted the best performance, so I set my Torrent port to 65432, and port-forwarded that port on my router to my computer. Additionally, I checked the UPnP ...
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reading data from IO port

I wrote the code to read data from PCI in C program: #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main() { int y=0x0000; int p1; p1 = inw(0x0000); printf("\n y = ...
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Port forward to a port on the same machine

I used to run a service on port 25570 I'm now changing it to run on port 25565 but I still want people who try to access it on the old port to have access to the service. So I'd like to forward port ...
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How can I open my Meteor app's port to the local network

I'm running a MeteorJS app on localhost:3000. I'd like to allow other computers connected to my network access to view the app by visiting my IP address. Any ideas on how I can do this? EDIT: I'm ...
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forward port 80 for multiple IP addresses on the same Ubuntu server

I am using an Ubuntu 12.10 server as a router/NAT for an internal network to the internet. I have also configured the server to forward port 80 to a server sitting on my internal network. This all ...
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Sharing Ubuntu Desktop on the Internet

At home, I have Ubuntu Linux 10.04 on a spare laptop and a DSL connection that's always on. What are the steps to securely (very important) share this on the web with like DynDNS or something and port ...
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Port forward Ubuntu 12.04 server to smoothwall

I have installed Smoothwall in one machine and Ubuntu server 12.04 with static IP in another machine... Now I need to that Ubuntu Server 12.04 to go through web via Smoothwall... Please help me on how ...
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how do you configure ubuntu to run only with tor [closed]

I have a problem. I'm trying to port forward and get a similar error msg, I type this in:ssh -N -L 9050:10.0.2.2:9050 root@10.0.3.1 and then I get this msg:ssh: connect to host 10.0.3.1 port 22: No ...
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cannot access ubuntu server behind huawei router even after port forwarding

I have an ubuntu 12.10 server installed, got a static ip from my ISP. Pinging the ip results in success. I also have a huawei Echo-Life modem. Following this site I was able to set the ports to be ...
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UFW port forwarding

I use UFW and here is my setup: eth0 is configured as a bridge interface (br0): inet adr:10.0.4.10 Bcast:10.0.4.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth2 is connected to a private network: inet ...
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SSH from external network refused

I've installed open-ssh-server on my home computer(running Lubuntu 12.04.1) in order to connect to it from school. This is how I've set up the sshd_config file: # Package generated configuration file ...
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MySQL port forwarding

I am trying to help a colleague to connect to my MySQL server. However the situation is a bit special, and here's why (let's call him person A and me, person B): Person A has a PC, on which he has a ...
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Can't open a port

I need to run an app on my computer which connects to local port 49100. So everything runs on one computer. I tried adding rules to gufw, firestarter, manually: sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ...
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How to prevent autossh from becoming stuck once in a while?

I am using autossh to build a reverse ssh tunnel but from time to time the tunnel stops working and I need to kill autossh and start it again. /etc/cron.d/autossh @reboot autossh -f -nNT -R ...
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How to find out what is blocking a port

I have 3 machines: Machine A - local network Machine B - local network Machine C - external network Local network has a dynamic IP and Dyndns is set up to forward it. I have ssh on Machine B ...
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Help with web server/port forwarding?

All of a sudden my web server (i.e. my old desktop computer) stopped responding. I thought it might be a DHCP issue, since sometimes it gets a new IP address (I don't think I have a static IP address ...
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Alternative for Xshell.

Do anyone knows an alternative for xshell? I have checked and the alternatives mentioned are putty, openssh etc. But I require it mainly for port forwarding and for that xshell works perfectly. Is ...
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How to access localhost remotely - Wordpress? [closed]

I have installed a LAMP stack (sudo tasksel install lamp-server) and wordpress (sudo apt-get install wordpress), but now, I would like to access my server remotely, to be used as a home fileserver. ...
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Opened port for WAN not working

I need to open port 8069 on external IP. from router point, internal-ip and port 8069 was set (to forward to that local ip). So it should be possible to connect from external-ip:8069 to ...
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How to change uTorrent's port from 8080 to another one?

I'm new to Ubuntu and still learning how to use it. Recently, I've been trying to install uTorrent, which I already was able to do so, but I need the port 8080 free to use run tomcat/glassfish and on ...
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How to create a restricted SSH user for port forwarding?

ændrük suggested a reverse connection for getting an easy SSH connection with someone else (for remote help). For that to work, an additional user is needed to accept the connection. This user needs ...
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Allow port 80 into Ubuntu

I'm trying to create a basic web server. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 desktop. I have installed LAMP and set up html files, and when I open a browser and navigate to 192.168.1.95 (static internal IP of ...
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How to test whether port forwarding is working?

I have done port forwarding on my computer but I don't know how to test it. Can anyone help me? I have not done it using iptables but I have done it by following the instructions given in this link.
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ssh: connect to host myremotehost.com port 22: Connection refused

So I am trying to get ssh working on my server. I can connect on my local network with the local ip address of the server perfectly fine. When I try to connect remotely (through a domain name that I ...
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How to run a command as root at an Ubuntu server start-up?

I use the following simple solution for port forwarding: sudo su nohup redir --lport 80 --caddr 192.168.1.2 --cport 80 & It works this way and doesn't work any other (like sudo nohup... for ...
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Error when doing port forwarding with iptables?

I've got a fairly standard ubuntu install and looking to add a port forward. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ...
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Redirect Sound output to a specific port…Realtek?

I am nearly as much of a noob about Linux/Ubuntu as one can be... currently dual booting side-by-side with Win 7 Pro 64 bit. That being said... system has a 5.1 surround sound card. The main regular ...
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How do I restrict ports to certain users?

Alright, well, what I wanted to do was to allow my users to only be allowed to access a specific port, In example, UserA can only access port 2004 While UserB can only access ports 2009, and 2010 To ...
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Is it needed to set Static IP and Port to get best performance from Transmission?

I've recently migrated to Linux from Windows and I work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I am trying to preserve my usual habits of Windows so that I can use Linux more regularly. One of those habits is P2P ...
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how to redirect only some ports to KVM VM?

I have a trouble trying to redirect only some of ports to VM. Host is running some services, that need to be available and on VM there is a special service, so that I need to redirect ports ...
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How do I set up an SSH SOCKS proxy with Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager?

Generally I use this command to create a local Socks proxy via SSH Tunneling ssh -ND 7777 -i google.pem ubuntu@107.20.x.x Then i configure my applications to use Socks proxy on localhost (i.e. ...
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Open port in gufw is closed, no incoming connection on deluge

I have a problem configuring gufw. I open ports on it, but when i test in deluge it shows as closed. Any help on setting up the firewall would be greatly appreciated. This is the output I get on the ...
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Servers running from chrooted Ubuntu on HP TouchPad?

The problem: servers appear to be broken inside my Ubuntu chroot. No matter what kind of server I try to run, they all seem unresponsive (VLC server won't respond to client, mkRemote doesn't move the ...
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How can I make sure my server is connecting through my router?

I have a Ubuntu server with PHP, Apache2 and all of that setup and working on my LAN. Meaning from any computer connected to the same router I can connect to 10.0.0.3 (My server). I have setup my ...
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Ports misbehaving - Closed but they are opened

I have an interesting problem for you. I have a few ports that I opened up. On my router and I allowed then on my firewall too with sudo ufw allow 30999. But still the application which would use ...
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Configuring my router

I need to configure my router so I can access the website I have running on my computer from the outside world. How can I do this? I think I need to open the port 80 on the router, which gets ...
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Connect to MySQL on remote server from inside python script (DB API)

Very recently I have started to write python scripts that need to connect few databases on mySQL server. The problem is that when I work from office my script works fine but running a script from my ...
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connect to vpn via another port( change pptp client port)

as you know pptp port is 1723 by default,know I forward port number 21 to 1723 on my CentOs VPN. Know I wanna connect to my vpn (pptp) from port number 21. How can I do it?
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remote desktop only works locally

here's my problem, I want to be able to remote control my grandparents computer in order to help them without having to drive 20 minutes to get there. however I can only connect to their machine when ...
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Desktop sharing - which port to forward?

I'm trying to share my desktop with the integrated tool Desktop Sharing Is there ports to forward on the router, and which ones ?
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How to know actives ssh port forwarding

I have configured in ~/.ssh/config many port forwarding for VNC with different port for each servers. Is there a command which can help me to know which port is forwarding to when I open an SSH ...
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Local port forwarding

I'm trying to use eboard to connect to the FICS servers (http://www.freechess.org), but it fails because port 5000 is blocked (company firewall). However, I can connect to the server through the ...
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How to tunnel traffic from one machine to another?

I have a server, which can be seen from outside of my small network, sever has domain name and such. And I have a local machine, which can be seen by server, but is not accessible from outside. So I ...
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Port forward for online games? [closed]

I've a full nat cone connection (fastweb) so its MAN (a sort of big LAN) has the same shared public IP for the same geographical area. It's possible to port forward and open the ports in its router ...
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How to forward ports on the same Ubuntu machine? I want my webserver be available on 80 and 8880 port

How do I forward ports on the same Ubuntu machine? I want my webserver be available on 80 and 8880 port. Or maybe I could making my apache listening not only on 80 port, but also on 8880? Is that ...
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Enable Port Forwarding for game server(UDP) [closed]

The port forwarding works very fine while in windows but as soon as i switch to ubuntu it doesnt!! The only port working is 80 I am using port no. 27960. What happens when someone tries to connect on ...
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Port Forwarding to Connect to MySQL Database of VirtualBox

I have Ubuntu 10.04 as host machine and Ubuntu 10.10 as guest machine installed in VirtualBox. I had success on port forwarding to connect to Apache of guest machine, so that now I can open in host ...