port forwarding

danielgrenell · Post by **danielgrenell** » Sun May 22, 2005 8:51 pm

on this page http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/FileTransfer the adium team recommends that if one is having problems with file transfers behind a router that one forward ports 5190-5200. i have such a problem, and would very much like to try this, however i do not know how. any assistance is much appreciated.[/url]

michael · Post by **michael** » Sun May 22, 2005 9:00 pm

Belongs in the "Need Help?" forums, as this isn't an Adium problem. This all depends really on what kind of router you have (if you are on dial up you don't actually need to do this...as you don't have a router) so check out the excellent guides on http://www.portforward.com/.

You might also want to open up ports on your Mac OS X inbuilt firewall. On the firewall tab of the sharing section of your system preferences click "New", "Other" from the drop down list, enter a description and the port range in the appropriate boxes, then when done make sure you check the tick box to allow connections on those ports. I can't remember whether you need UDP or TCP though, so you could just do both, also I don't think your os x firewall will really make that much difference the router matters more.

danielgrenell · Post by **danielgrenell** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:56 am

i don't have the power to move it, but an admin can if they want.

i have an airport express. i tried opening up the airport admin utility like portforward.com says to, but i can only forward one port at a time, and adium wants me to open 5190-5200. should i just do each one individually?

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:12 am

danielgrenell wrote:i don't have the power to move it, but an admin can if they want.

i have an airport express. i tried opening up the airport admin utility like portforward.com says to, but i can only forward one port at a time, and adium wants me to open 5190-5200. should i just do each one individually?

Annoying, but yes.