2009-01-04, 01:54
Real newbie here seeking help please.
I have Qnap TS209 II Turbo NAS running Twonky Mediaserver 4.4.5 serving local network as music server: mp3 at present and Flac planned . To date clients have been dedicated hardware boxes such as Netgear MP101 and Noxon 2. This setup has worked well especially Noxon 2 but I am now trying to find a software UPnP client.
Client machine is Thinkpad T42 with OpenSuse 11.0 and I am trying to use XBMC as this seems to be the most complete software client available with the features I want. I have installed xbmc using rpm. (Cannot yet see which version but will keep looking!)
My problem is that nothing works until I turn off the OpenSuse Firewall.
With firewall off I can see tree from the Twonky server and select and play tracks just fine but I can get nothing with firewall on.
I have tried opening various ports as suggested on other forums but still no go. I suspect I do not have correct protocol set but the list of protocols available through Yast is a bit restricted and there is no obvious candidate. I am seeking advice please on how to set up the firewall so that xbmc can work as UPnP client.
Advice and assistance much would be much appreciated.
Budgie
I have Qnap TS209 II Turbo NAS running Twonky Mediaserver 4.4.5 serving local network as music server: mp3 at present and Flac planned . To date clients have been dedicated hardware boxes such as Netgear MP101 and Noxon 2. This setup has worked well especially Noxon 2 but I am now trying to find a software UPnP client.
Client machine is Thinkpad T42 with OpenSuse 11.0 and I am trying to use XBMC as this seems to be the most complete software client available with the features I want. I have installed xbmc using rpm. (Cannot yet see which version but will keep looking!)
My problem is that nothing works until I turn off the OpenSuse Firewall.
With firewall off I can see tree from the Twonky server and select and play tracks just fine but I can get nothing with firewall on.
I have tried opening various ports as suggested on other forums but still no go. I suspect I do not have correct protocol set but the list of protocols available through Yast is a bit restricted and there is no obvious candidate. I am seeking advice please on how to set up the firewall so that xbmc can work as UPnP client.
Advice and assistance much would be much appreciated.
Budgie
