"Michael Dauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am stuck. I succeeded to make a backup from a WinXP Pro as it > was inside the LAN. Then I moved it outside and adapted the IP > addresses in all configs.
If "outside the LAN" includes a network address translation (NAT) router, then you will need to configure it to pass port 9102 traffic through to your WinXP system. The quick test for the presense of a NAT device is to type "ipconfig" at a command prompt. If your IP address is in the form 192.168.*.* , 10.*.*.* , or 172.16-31.*.* , then you probably have a NAT device between you and the Internet. Assuming that the system has direct (non-NAT) IP connectivity, I would look deeper into the firewall config. There are several settings in the WinXP SP2 firewall code that allow you to only permit access to ports from the local subnet, which obviously has changed since you moved the machine out of the LAN. Since you're using a third-party firewall, you are on your own to verify that it doesn't work the same way. Every test that you have run shows that the FD is listening on port 9102, and something is preventing the DIR's packets from getting to it. If all else fails, you can always bring the system back onto your LAN (virtually, of course!) using OpenVPN. Since it uses SSL and not IPSec, it builds point-to-point links that blow right through NAT devices and give you an encrypted link to boot. You probably don't want to be doing an unencrypted backup over the Internet anyway, so you can kill two birds with one stone by using OpenVPN to set up a virtual link back to Bacula..... -Arthur ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
