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Remote access of LAN

So I set up Dyndns on my Actiontec Verizon FIOs router and I can reach my router's external IP. But how do I tell Nomachine which of the internal IPs to use to reach a specific PC. The internal LAN IPs are in the 192.168.x.x range and thus aren't routable over the Internet. Do I use the External...
- benwood
- Post #9
- Jun 21, 2016
- Forum: Networking
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Remote access of LAN

NoMachine sounds like what I need. But I want to connect to more than one computer on my LAN and I only have one external IP address as my LAN is sitting behind a router and the computers on the LAN have addresses in the 192.169.1. range. How do I specify which computer to connect to?
- benwood
- Post #5
- Jun 19, 2016
- Forum: Networking
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Remote access of LAN

I have a small home LAN consisting of 6 PCs. Four of the PCs are running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and two of them are running Windows 10. I'd like to be able to connect to any of them remotely with my Win 10 laptop or Android tablet. Can some tell a newbie how to do this? Do I need a VPN? How...
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- Jun 19, 2016
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Networking
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Windows batch scripting question

I need some help with Windows scripting. I have a bunch of DVDs rips stored on my PC that I watch with my Patriot Box Office (PBO) hardware media player. Unfortunately the PBO doesn't support symbolic links properly so I've had to create directory junctions instead. I've been typing the...
- benwood
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- Dec 4, 2015
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 7 Home Premiun and iSCSI

My HTPC has a 3.2 ghz 2500k Sandy Bridge CPU, Intel motherboard, 8 GB of memory. My caprure cards are as follows: One Ceton 4 tuner PCIe CableCard, one Silicon Dust 3 tuner CableCard Ethernet and four OTA (Over The Air) Silicon Dust tuner Dual Ethernet. My media server has a 3.8 ghz AMD...
- benwood
- Post #3
- Oct 12, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 7 Home Premiun and iSCSI

I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and I'm using Windows Media Center to record TV shows. I'm running out of hard drive space on the HTPC and adding more drives or swapping in larger drives isn't an option. But I have another PC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 that I use as a...
- benwood
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- Oct 11, 2015
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Firewire

I have a old 2 bay external hard drive case that I connected to my PC (NOT a Mac) via Firewire 400 to record video. The case held 2 IDE hard drives and a IDE to Firewire bridgeboard. I'd like to reuse the case but update it to use SATA hard drives. So I need a new bridgeboard that supports two...
- benwood
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- Jul 30, 2015
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Apple
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HTPC with WMC 7 and XBox 360 as media extender problem

I never turned off UAC.
- benwood
- Post #6
- Mar 14, 2015
- Forum: Home Theater PCs
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HTPC with WMC 7 and XBox 360 as media extender problem

It's acually not a fresh from scratch install if that makes a difference.. Its an image of my HTPC's hard drive I made years ago (before I had an XBox 360) when I 1st installed Windows and had it set up the way I wanted it. And I've tried generating a new key but installing the extender stops at...
- benwood
- Post #4
- Mar 12, 2015
- Forum: Home Theater PCs
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HTPC with WMC 7 and XBox 360 as media extender problem

I had to rebuild my HTPC running Windows 7 x64 because of a bad hard drive. I replaced the hard drive and now when I try to use my XBox 360 with it doesn't work. Any idea as to what's wrong and how to fix it? I'm not running any kind of security software (AntiVirus, non-WIndows Firewall, etc). I...
- benwood
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- Mar 12, 2015
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Home Theater PCs
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Suggested MiniITX system build.

Does it have the horsepower to view Blurays & MKVs?
- benwood
- Post #6
- Feb 27, 2015
- Forum: Computer Building
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Suggested MiniITX system build.

I chose a AMD processor over a Pentium because I want to use the CPU's built-in GPU to save on the heat, cost and room needed for a separate GPU and I understood that AMD's graphics were superior to Intel's. I want to watch Blurays & DVDs as well as MKVs and streaming video as well as surf the...
- benwood
- Post #5
- Feb 27, 2015
- Forum: Computer Building
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Suggested MiniITX system build.

I'm thinking about building a MiniITX system for web surfing, using RDP to access my other PCs, streaming video & playing DVD & Blurays (both physical disks and rips stored on my media server in ISO and file form). MKV support would be nice as well. I do not want to overclock or play games...
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- Feb 25, 2015
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Computer Building
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Maxtor Shared Storage Drive question

Thanks Larry. Where do I find a Linux LiveCD/DVD? Also what's Disk Utility. And can it use USB as I'm using a USB to IDE converter because my computer doesn't have any IDE ports.
- benwood
- Post #3
- Oct 8, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
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Maxtor Shared Storage Drive question

I have a Maxtor Shared Storage Drive (MSS) which is a NAS connected to my wired Ethernet network. And I can no longer access the info on it and there are some files I need from it. I think that the hard drive may have been corrrupted. I pulled the hard drive out of the case and it spun up. The...
- benwood
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- Oct 8, 2014
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Computer Building
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Longer 8087 to SATA reverse breakout cables needed

I'm building a storage server in a Norco 4224 case. I need to connect the SATA ports on my motherboard (MSI FM2-A85XA-G65) with 8 SATA ports to the Norco's 8087 ports. I know I need 8087 to SATA reverse breakout cables in order to do so. I bought 2 Norco 8087 to SATA reverse breakout cables but...
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- Sep 9, 2014
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Computer Building
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MAC addresses not visible behind wireless bridge

I have a XBox 360, Sony S-1100 Bluray player and a WDTV Live Plus all of which only offer wired Ethernet that I wanted to connect to my wired gigabit Ethernet network. But my network wiring doesn't run to the room that the XBox 360, etc are in. So I bought a Engenius ERB300H wireless N bridge in...
- benwood
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- Aug 2, 2014
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Networking
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120 mm fans suggestions for Norco 4224 case.

I'm buying a Norco 4224 case and I'm going to use the replacement fan mounting plate Norco sells that holds 3 120mm fans. Does anyone have suggestions for 120mm fans that are quiet ut still can do the job? These fans are going to be used in a environment with a good deal of static pressure. Some...
- benwood
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- Jul 20, 2014
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Mount Points and Windows Explorer.

I have a PC running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium setup as a media server to hold my DVD rips and music. I was running out of drive letters so I changed over to using mount points for the drives instead. But now the drives don't show up in Windows Explorer. I need to copy things to and from the...
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- Apr 21, 2014
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Retrieving data from GPT HDD

A lot of NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes use Linux not Windows as their operating system. So the disk might be formatted in a Linux filesystem not NTFS or FAT. It's invisible to you as long as you access the disk through the NAS. It's only when you try to access this disk by attaching it...
- benwood
- Post #3
- Mar 19, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Windows Symbolic Link Question

Thanks.
- benwood
- Post #8
- Mar 15, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows Symbolic Link Question

Thanks for the advice. What I'm trying to do is to have one copy of the same DVD rip appear under two different directories, not mirror the directory structure of another drive.
- benwood
- Post #7
- Mar 15, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows Symbolic Link Question

I had already created the empty directories needed in anticipation of using junction points. Under Windows XP the program NTFSLink allowed you to do this. My media server now runs Windows 7 Home Premium and the program NTFSLink no longer works with it. So I'm going to have to delete all of the...
- benwood
- Post #4
- Mar 14, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows Symbolic Link Question

Is it possible to write a command creating a symbolic link between two directories when the target directory already exists? For example the command "mklink /D /J Aliens G:\SciFi" would create the NTFS junction point "Aliens" in the "G:\SciFi" directory. But the "Aliens" directory already exists...
- benwood
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- Mar 14, 2014
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows symbolic link problem

I have a PC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 set up as a media server where I store my DVD rips. I play them with my Patriot Box Office (PBO) media player. I have the movie Alien ripped as files in the directory named Alien which is in turn stored in a directory named SciFi. I also want to...
- benwood
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- Dec 28, 2013
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 7 problem with creating new User account

I tried to fix the error message "This User Profile failed the logon. User Profile cannot be loaded" using the instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215 and the instuctions at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d6zKj2iXL8 but they didn't work. I had two S-1-5 directories with the same...
- benwood
- Post #7
- Dec 21, 2013
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Choosing a good tablet.

I'm new to tablet computing and I'm looking at buying one of 4 different tablets: Sero 7 Pro with 8GB, Acer Iconia 8GB A1-810-L615 Tablet, Asus ME-102 Memo Pad with 16GB, Dell Venue 8 with 8 GB of memory. These are all Android tablets. I have no interest in a tablet running Windows and I can't...
- benwood
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- Nov 29, 2013
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Windows 7 problem with creating new User account

My HTPC has a 120 GB Kingston SSD as the C: drive. Does it make a diffference?
- benwood
- Post #5
- Nov 17, 2013
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 7 problem with creating new User account

I tried everything in the Microsoft recommendation except editing the registry. The link to Microsoft's recommmendation is what I got when I put the error message "This User Profile failed the logon. User Profile cannot be loaded" into Google.
- benwood
- Post #4
- Nov 17, 2013
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 7 problem with creating new User account

I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64. From a Administrator account I created a new Standard account with a password. But when I tried to login to the new account I got the following error message: "This User Profile failed the logon. User Profile cannot be loaded". Following...
- benwood
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- Nov 17, 2013
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Invisible Shares question.

Is it possible to make certain shares invisible to some user accounts but not others? I know that by adding a $ to the share name I can make the account invisible to everyone but I don't want that. I set up an account on my PC so that my WDTV Live media player could access my DVD/Bluray rips...
- benwood
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- Nov 9, 2013
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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What's the total storage space you have available in your home?

HTPC -------- 8 TB = (1 TB + 3 TB + 4 TB) internal. 7 TB = (4 TB + 1.5 TB + 1.5 TB) via 4 bay ESata external drive case with 3 bays filled connected to HTPC: Media Server -------------- 15 TB internal = (2 TB + 2 TB + 2 TB) and (3 TB + 3 TB + 3 TB) 12 TB = Three 4 bay USB 2.0 external...
- benwood
- Post #39
- Oct 20, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Reading data from external drive.

Don't know anything about Linux but as long as its usable without Linux knowledge I'd be willing to give it a try. Right now I'm hoping I won't need it but it will be nice to know I can retrieve the data if I need to.
- benwood
- Post #8
- Oct 6, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
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Wireless bridging question.

I have a wired network but I want to use a couple wired media players in a place where I can't run a Ethernet cable so I want to use a wireless router and wireless bridge to connect them to my network. I was using two D-Link DIR-601 routers with one of them flashed with DD-WRT to act as a...
- benwood
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- Oct 6, 2013
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Networking
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Reading data from external drive.

All of my computers except one are running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1. .I have one computer still running Windows XP SP3 and I don't care about using > 2 TB drives with it.
- benwood
- Post #5
- Oct 5, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
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Reading data from external drive.

I have a 3 TB 3.5 inch Toshiba Canvio external hard drive which I've formatted as a GPT disk in order to use the full 3 TB. I've found that with Seagate 3 TB and 4 TB external hard drives even if you use GPT if you remove the hard drive from the external case and try to use as a regular drive...
- benwood
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- Oct 5, 2013
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Computer Building
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auto power down of external hard drives

I have several of the following USB 3.0/ESata external drive cases and they spin down after a time, at least when I've hooked them up via ESata: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817182265 They also have a real on/off switch so you can actually turn them off when not in use. A...
- benwood
- Post #17
- Sep 19, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Media server program to transcode .WTV files.

I have a WDTV Live Plus and I use it to watch Netflix and DVD ISOs. Now I'd like to use it to watch the TV shows recorded on my Windows Media Center 7 machine. All of the TV programs are recorded as copy freely so that's not a problem. I know that the WDTV can't view WTV files natively. But I...
- benwood
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- Sep 3, 2013
- Replies: 10
- Forum: TVs
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Making wireless bridge on wired network

My Linksys BEFSR41 is a wired router and thus can't be configured as a access point. The Linksys is wired to a D-Link DIR-601 rev A1 wireless router running stock D-Link 1.02 firmware. That in turn is supposed to connect wirelessly to another DIR-601 wireless router running DD-WRT. But I can't...
- benwood
- Post #3
- Aug 29, 2013
- Forum: Networking
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Making wireless bridge on wired network

I have a wired network with a wired Linksys BEFSR41 router which handles PPPOE for my DSL account and acts as a DHCP server. I want to add a wireless bridge to this setup so I that can use a older media player that only supports wired Ethernet. I also have two D-Link DIR-601 rev A1 wireless...
- benwood
- Thread
- Aug 29, 2013
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Networking

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