[mythtv-users] Preferred method for remote access?

[Simon Hobson]

Zarthan South wrote:

>If you still want to do the deed then you can set up your home 
>router to forward port 80 to the mythtv backend mythweb box. I would 
>set a password on mythweb if you are going to use it

Not only "would you", but you *must* set a password. Apart from the 
fact that some people will find it highly amusing to fiddle with your 
system, but there have been reports on this list of all recordings 
disappearing suddenly. This was put down to a web crawler finding it 
and crawling all the links - including all those "Delete" links in 
the recordings page !

I haven't bothered with anything but my laptop yet, I use SSH to 
tunnel a few ports (primarily for mail) and that allows me to connect 
to localhost:<some number> and get my Myth box. At some time, when my 
"round to it" list shrinks enough, I'll be setting up a VPN to make 
things a bit easier.

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