TyTool remote access through firewall?

[pukka]

Does anyone know if the TyTool server listen on a known or configurable port? I'd like to set up my firewall to allow client remote access from my work machine.

Thanks.

[laserfan]

Might be asking for trouble to expose your Tivo to the Web directly.

I can access my Tivo from outside my Linksys-controlled local home network by using VNC to one of my home computers. You can port-forward to a computer w/VNC (port 5900) and use the VNC client from work to access your password-protected VNC PC at home. Once in, you use that PC to access your Tivo e.g. Telnet or Tivoweb or TyTool or whatever over the LAN. Sounds clumsy but it works great and is relatively safe.

VNC is free and works beautifully for this and many other purposes.

As I re-read this I suppose it is possible you wanted to grab Tivo tys to your work machine. This method will not work for this, you can only use VNC to tell your home PC to run the TyTool client and xsfer files from Tivo to your home PC...

[pukka]

Thanks for the reply laserfan, yes I already use vnc and great it is, but I thought I might want to drag recordings over to my work pc sometime using the TyTool client.

You're right though, I wouldn't want to open up the tivo to the world, I need to find a way of restricting access to know ip addresses.

[laserfan]

pukka maybe if you described your firewall you might find someone w/a similar setup that knows how to help.

I used to use ZoneAlarm and I recall that I could establish my work PC as "eligible" to get past its security because I had a fixed IP (I think it even had an allowable range of IPs). I don't know how to do this with my Linksys though.

[FreydNot]

My TiVo's sit behind a linux firewall. My PC (which runs its own firewall) sits outside the linux firewall.

My firewall is an IPTables script. I use the following lines to map port 3565 on my firewall to port 3565 on the TiVo *ONLY* for my PC's IP address. I also map the telnet port 23 from the firewall box to the TIVo. I don't run telnet on the linux box (just SSH).

In this example, 12.13.14.15 would be my PC and 10.11.12.101 is my TiVO

# Bedroom TiVo tytool 3565
#$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $INET_IFACE -p tcp -s 12.13.14.15/32 --dport 3565 -m state --state NEW,EST
ABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
#$IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 3565 -j DNAT --to 10.11.12.101:3565
#$IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 23 -j DNAT --to 10.11.12.101:23