Can't Connect to Openfire

Openfire Openfire Dev
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I have an issue where I am unable to connect to my openfire sever, which is running on my main machine.

I am able to connect to this using smack on my laptop, but only if it is in the same local network as the machine running openfire.

In this case I connect using the server machines local I.P, such as 192.168.1.5.

However when my laptop is not in this local network I am unable to connect to my server.

I have tried using the external I.P that my server machine uses but this isn’t working.

I have checked on this site

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

where you can put in an I.P address and a port number and it tells you if its open or not.

I did try this with the external I.P address that my server machine uses and port 5222, put I am told that it isn’t open. Could this be the problem? I’m not sure how to correct this if it is.

So any advice on how to fix this?

Thanks.

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Hi,

Your machine is behind some sort of network address translation device? Does it have the necessary port forwarding setup?

daryl

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By that do you mean a router? As currently my machine is connected to one.

I have tried to set up port forwarding on it but it doesn’t seem to work

For example I have forwarded ports 9090 and 9091 which means that I am able to access the admin console remotely, i.e not in the same local network as the server machine.

However when I try doing the same thing but using port 5222 instead it doesnt seem to work.

Any ideas why?

Thanks again

I.

edit Just to be sure, I should be using TCP when setting up the redirect, yes?

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Ok I got it working now, and I’m not sure how.

I basically went through the exact steps as I had before, odd.

But thanks anyway.

I.