How do I set up my subsonic server for remote access? UBUNTU

[alvar.berglind]

PLEASE READ MY POST BEFORE YELLING!

Here's the deal, I would like to have my subsonic server (Ubuntu 11.04 laptop) to be able to access it from the internet. I have a domain name, I have pointed the DNS records to my Ubuntu laptop. the domain name is online, (the laptop is the host) I have fixed the router to make my domain go through at port 4040 to the correct IP.

But I can't reach my Ubuntu laptop if I try to connect to it via my iPhone.

Any ideas on what I can do? What more info should I add?

[mikes]

Do you have an assigned IP block? I would guess not, and your router is actually doing NAT between your laptop, which is in an RFC 1918 private address space (e.g. 192.168.0.x). A DNS entry pointing to a private address won't do anything, except possibly for other hosts on the same network. Routers don't have anything to do with domains - they route based on IP addresses, so it's not clear what you mean when you say you've "fixed the router to make my domain go through."

What does your DNS entry resolve to (nslookup mylaptop.example.com)? You probably need to point DNS to the public IP of your router. But, many ISPs will change that address on you at times, which makes that unreliable unless the router is also set up to do dynamic DNS.

Easiest is just to take advantage of a mylaptop.subsonic.com type domain. Support for that is built into Subsonic. From your Subsonic web page, settings/network, then "Access your server over the Internet using an easy-to-remember address." at the bottom.

[alvar.berglind]

I have put the DNS records to my global ip. then fixed the router so that it puts signals through at port 4040 to my Ubuntu laptop (192.168.1.2).
my address is MOD:Deleted address to protect user but it's just pointing at the web server I currently have. What should I do?

[mikes]

Works fine. You need to go to Mod:removed address to protect user / Do so immediately, you haven't secured it with a password.

[alvar.berglind]

aaaahhaaaa, I didn't know I had to force it to use port 4040. Thanks!

but I still can't log in... :O

[mikes]

Check your PM.

[alvar.berglind]

I can log in with my admin password, but not yours! haha

thanks for the editing mods! ...