I try to use HFS but nothing works well

[quest]

I do have a router...

the external IP is 24.132.xxx.148

and the internal IP is 192.xxx.0.xxx

In the adressbrowser always stays the Internal IP when I like to share. When I give the url complete to a friend he cannot connect, I can!!!

I use my internal XP firewall and the router I have forwarded port 80!

But I cannot connect....

I also use another http server (File Share Pro and configured in the same way, but this one works)

Can somebody help?

[Yves]

Salut cher ami,
i had the same problem until i found out that if i use my router i cannot use port 80 for HFS - as the router uses port 80. So i had to use another port, actually port 7977.
When i want to see my files in HFS, i choose http://192.168.1.33:7977 (33 depends of the router-type and is for the FIRST machine here, my other machines use 34, 35, and 36 - you have to look this in your router-manual), and my friends could go there by my external IP http://externalIP:7977
But i use a redirecting-service from DynDNS and from No-IP, which first hide my external ip-number and second offer by this a domain which is always the same after rebooting Windows.
For creating such a redirecting-service for No-IP i can send you my manual by e-mail.
Yves

[rejetto]

In the adressbrowser always stays the Internal IP when I like to share. When I give the url complete to a friend he cannot connect, I can!!!

sure, yu have to give him the external IP.
there are many options features about it.
start using "find external address" in menu.

[WST]

Salut cher ami,
i had the same problem until i found out that if i use my router i cannot use port 80 for HFS - as the router uses port 80. So i had to use another port, actually port 7977.
When i want to see my files in HFS, i choose http://192.168.1.33:7977 (33 depends of the router-type and is for the FIRST machine here, my other machines use 34, 35, and 36 - you have to look this in your router-manual), and my friends could go there by my external IP http://externalIP:7977
But i use a redirecting-service from DynDNS and from No-IP, which first hide my external ip-number and second offer by this a domain which is always the same after rebooting Windows.
For creating such a redirecting-service for No-IP i can send you my manual by e-mail.
Yves

So people can access my HFS outside the LAN by typing in http://externalIP:7977?

[rejetto]

yes, but router must be configured first