Access to firefly through Internet?

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  • 15/10/2007 at 6:47 PM #1820
    wwarren
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    Can firefly running on a NAS behind a typical home router be made visible to iTunes running on a computer elsewhere over the internet? If so, is there some inherent security that would keep just anybody from having access to it. I noticed recently at a public wifi hotspot, that a bunch of shared libraries were available for me to listen to.

    wwarren

    15/10/2007 at 7:03 PM #12931
    fizze
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    Yes, yes, yes.
    There is an entry in the firefly wiki abuot using firefly over a remote, secure tunnel via rendevous-proxy. Very secure, and very comfy 🙂

    15/10/2007 at 7:58 PM #12932
    wwarren
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    I found the wiki article you mentioned. It looks surprisingly simple. It occurs to me that slow upstream bandwidth may be a problem. My files are in ALAC format, and I’ll bet my upstream bandwidth from my cable provider can’t handle them.

    16/10/2007 at 7:52 AM #12933
    fizze
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    Yes, but there are efforts underway to encode to something different than RIFF/WAVE.

    I believe it’s already in place for some architectures/transcoding plugins.

    17/10/2007 at 2:37 AM #12934
    rpedde
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    @fizze wrote:

    Yes, but there are efforts underway to encode to something different than RIFF/WAVE.

    I believe it’s already in place for some architectures/transcoding plugins.

    I think these are just local hacks.

    And as always, don’t expose the server to the internet, use it over ssh.

    — Ron

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