Re: Cannot Connect to RWW externally.

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Apart from the Vigor I mentioned earlier, I also came across that issue with a zyxel the week before. Took some poking about to find the section relating to port forwarding. Under nat options there are two options - full feature and SUA only, changing it from SUA to full feature hides the port redirection options as full feature in their speak is one to one nat mapping for multiple wan addresses to multiple lan addresses, SUA is the one to choose for standard single wan address into multiple lan addresses based on the ports. One to remember if you come across them. In the end I did up replacing this with a decent make one as the cctv cameras I was working with still didn't want to stream live video.
simon

Dickie wrote:
It was a daft setup, I was not on the domain but using the same wireless subnet, But I was connecting to a RWW at our main office and then from the RWW client connecting back in. Only doing this to prove the outside world would work. Yes the router does not perform any loop backs, so that's why I did the RWW connection (I know that there would be an easier way, but time was against me and this worked).

Once the router was configured to correctly port forward it worked fine. To anyone out there using ZyXel Modem/Router please be careful of the Firewall and NAT port forwarding it can be confusing as they do look like they perform the same task but obviously don't.

Thanks again for all the help.

"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:

are you in fact attempting connection from 'outside', ie. a separate internet connection, or are you attempting to connect to your external IP from 'inside' your router. Reason I ask is that this commonly gets asked and exposes a limitation of your router, the inability to take an outgoing request and 'loop it back' through port forwarding.

"Dickie" <Dickie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:21BD9B5B-6C13-4D49-872D-91171D099986@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I an in the process of reconfiguring a SBS machine which was previously setup
as a W2k3 Server (NOT SBS, everything setup manually).
I have cleared most things out and now run the CEICW, setup a digital cert
using a pblic IP address (not got a "A Record" pointing just yet). The router
I have currently forwards Ports 443 and 4125 to the LAN IP of the server
(Also 25 for Mail, which is working fine).
I can connect to the Server using the netbios name \\servername\remote (not
connected to the domain, but using the same subnet and IP as the server) but
if I try using \\PublicIP\remote I get "Cannot Find Server OR DNS Error"

Thanks


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