I'm running dial up and HomeSeer. I just changed to a new computer with Windows XP Home. I've installed DNS2Go and have it dialing up four times a day to allow me to access the web page interface remotely. DNS2Go seems to work well--especially the scheduling of the dial up connection. I've even got a script in HomeSeer that shoots out an e-mail to me telling me the temperature in the house while the dial up session is current.
Here's the problem: I am unable to access the web page remotely. I type in the DNS2Go address that I've set up and after a period of waiting for the web browser to search for the website, it comes back and says the address or computer is not currently available. My thoughts are that this has to be connected somehow to the default firewall settings in the new computer.
So, I changed the properties of the connection and removed firewall protection, with the same result.
Does anybody have an idea of what might be preventing outside access to the web page? I've got the web page set up and have established a username and password, but I don't even get so far as to use it.
Curiously, when I set this all up using an old computer and Windows ME, the remote access worked fine. Unfortunately, that operating system and the computer itself were not up to the task, so I had to change the computer, and now I have this problem.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
SMGarman
Here's the problem: I am unable to access the web page remotely. I type in the DNS2Go address that I've set up and after a period of waiting for the web browser to search for the website, it comes back and says the address or computer is not currently available. My thoughts are that this has to be connected somehow to the default firewall settings in the new computer.
So, I changed the properties of the connection and removed firewall protection, with the same result.
Does anybody have an idea of what might be preventing outside access to the web page? I've got the web page set up and have established a username and password, but I don't even get so far as to use it.
Curiously, when I set this all up using an old computer and Windows ME, the remote access worked fine. Unfortunately, that operating system and the computer itself were not up to the task, so I had to change the computer, and now I have this problem.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
SMGarman
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