Despite any facts you can throw at me. Router port forward to my computer doesn't work. I tried installing LFS at my fathers computer (same OS) and everything works fine. Amazing!
Now i installed him a VNC server so i'll be able to use it without walking all over the house

Thank you for the help the_angry_angel and for clearing out the dark spots in my knowledge

PS: Sorry for spelling mistakes i've made, i'm not English (i'm from Slovenia). By the way, after 1.1.2008 Slovenia is on the head of EU =)

Last edited by Tramsak, Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:29.

I see. After i got into a little bit more, I found out that i really shouldn't use Windows XP. Somehow the port forwarding doesn't work for my PC or i must be dumb (which could be the case). So i will try to set up a server with wine on a Unix based machine.

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You cannot bind to an IP that is not registered to a network interface on the computer you're running the server on.
i.e. you cannot run LFS on your PC and setup LFS to bind to your router's public IP. Networking does not work like that.

Although its offtopic it won't hurt anyone...
I somehow imagined this yes, but i really don't understand why. Actually what confuses me is the Apache VirtualHost function. If apache can recognize from which domain client connected to your computer, even if it isn't assigned to your PC, programs like LFS could also listen on that domains, IPs...

Thank you for your help. In the end I think it was windows that I can't get along with =).

Umm... i read most of the above posts, but i haven't find the anwser to mine.

I am behind a LevelOne router. I have opened all the ports and everything, but clients can't connect to me. Furthermore only the members of my LAN can connect on my server. The problem is that my ip isn't asign to my computer, but my computer only register a network ip (192.168.xxx.xxx). I tried using an ip feauture in the config file, setting it to my IP in the global range (82.xxxx.xxx.xxx) which is static, but i get an error in the program: "TCP Socket: Bind failed".

I'm really really frustrated by this. I am not experienceing dificulties in LFS server only. I have the same problem on CS server, however i never have this problem running more sophisticated programs like Apache, Postfix, Shoutcast server...

I'm looking forward any ideas you can come up with =).

P.S: I want to run server on windows XP machine without any firewalls, only router which has ports open...