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I have a home server running Windows Home Server 2011 that I am using to store my media. I can add videos and music just fine using SMB. With WHS 2011 I have setup a web domain to access my server from the internet. I can access it from computers outside of my network but when I try and add the source in XBMC (tried on AppleTV 2 and on a PC running Windows 7) but it won't connect to the server. It doesn't even seem to actually try and look for it but immediately says that it cannot connect. When trying to connect I have tried HTTPS and HTTP but with no success. It seems like the issues is on XBMC as I am able to access the server via the internet on several different computers. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
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Correct, when I add the source:
Protocol: web server directory (https)
server address: my domain.com
remote path: (blank)
port: (port)
Username: (username)
Password: (password)
The way that I set up my domain is that with a specific username i only have access to my 3 movie folders. I would like to add all 3 of them to my video source.
Even when I add the folder names in the remote path it isn't able to find it.
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I am also trying to get this type of setup working. Currently i have Windows Home Server 2011 hosting a centralized Mysql database with 2 x ATV2(black) running Eden. I would like to somehow access my library over the internet using either webdav or https. Anyone have luck setting this up?
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Instead of using HTTP, why not setup a VPN to your local network?
If you're using a windows machine, there's a really easy utility called Hamachi that can setup a VPN pretty easily.
Thank you to everyone for this awesome software!
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2012-07-21, 21:20
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-21, 21:21 by DDM123.)
Cool, thanks for the responses. I'm going to try out regenerating my cert shortly. I actually have a L2TP VPN running, but I travel a ton and it'd be nice to not have to worry about firing up my VPN every time I ran XBMC on my laptop, iPad and Android stuff. It can be done though so this isn't a huge problem. L2TP is super slow on my Android over 4G for some reason, whereas PPTP isn't, and PPTP is flaky whereas L2TP isn't.
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thank you so much. i had this same issue but it would crash when trying to add the source. changed servername and recreated my ssl cert and key just like you said and now it works like a charm.