Configuring access from a second machine - MACOS

[satd]

I'm trying to get sabnzbd running from a second machine on 2 macs.    My goal is to be able to download an NZB file and have it automatically download and unpar on to my time capsule.  If there is an easier way to accomplish this I am most interested to hear it.

I've read the FAQ and the documentation and spent several hours testing different things.

On the server I'm running DHCP, however I manually set the IP address to be 192.168.0.246.  When I access it on the same machine, it shows the IP as http://192.168.183.1 in the browser bar.  I could previously access it temporarily from the second machine until DHCP switched over to a new IP address.

At this point I'm lost and any pointers would be most appreciated.

Version: 0.4.6
OS: OSX 10.5.6
Install-type:  OSx .app
Skin (if applicable): DEfault
Firewall Software: little snitch
Are you using IPV6? no
Is the issue reproducible? yes

[switch]

Not really sure why the two ip's you give are in different subnets.
1) What is your network setup like?
2) Any extra wireless access points?
3) Which machine is hosting sabnzbd, one of the two macs?
4) Does this machine have more than one ethernet card/wireless card?

Your best bet is to probably get the machine hosting sabnzbd to have a static ip address, either through configuring your router/server or specifying it on the machine hosting sabnzbd.
You can use a blank host (ie delete the entry for host under config>general, save and restart sabnzbd) which will find your internal ip address and listen on that. You could also set the host to 0.0.0.0 which will listen on all interfaces (mainly localhost and your local ip address)

To access it, if your ip is still changing with dhcp, use the name of your pc instead of the local ip address.

[rAf]

Like switch said, if you configure your sab with 0.0.0.0, you should be able to access with http://name.local:8080/sabnzbd.
name could be configured in share prefs of your mac.

Hope it helps.

[sander]

@satd:

You first need to be able to "ping" from one machine to the other machine. You will need the IP address of the other machine. If the machines are on the same LAN, the IP adresses should be almost the same: the first bytes should be the same, like 192.168.1.x.  The ping command could like:

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ping 192.168.1.45

You could also use the local IPv6 addresses, which look like fe80::..... The advantage of these IPv6 addresses is that they do not change.

As soon as you can ping, we can help you further to configure SABnzbd

[satd]

Guys, thanks for your help.

I'm further along (or perhaps I've identified a mystery). 

My two machines are with IP addresses:

192.168.0.245 (client)
192.168.0.246 (server)

I can ping between them no problem.

However the mystery is here:  My sabnzbd insists on running via this IP on the server:

http://192.168.183.1:8080/sabnzbd/config/general/

I can't get it to work on the correct IP address on the server, which is 192.168.0.246.

Additionally, I have looked in detail at every post in this thread, so to respond:

a) these machines are connected to the same router
b) sabdnzb is set to 0.0.0.0
c) i tried accessing via http://name.local:8080/sabnzbd.  This works fine on the host machine, won't connect on the client

Do I need to enable some kind of webserver or something on the host machine?

Any ideas?

Also, is anyone here a mac networking expert and can help me through this via phone?  Tell me your hourly rate, I'll paypal you the money in advance and you can walk me through it.  I'm desperate to get this solved!

[satd]

Have you tried using 192.168.0.246 rather than 0.0.0.0?

Sounds weird, does your machine have more than one network port in use? Wireless + ethernet?

Whoops just read your other post... not really sure but I'm going to guess your network is goofy.

I read your post so I just tried putting 192.168.0.246 and it didn't work.

There may be some weirdness in my network, but everything works just fine.  I do use both wireless + ethernet, although in my testing environment everything is ethernet only.

[interfacelift]

Is your Time Capsule also acting as your router? If not, and you have a second router, that might explain why you have two subnets and two sets of distributed IPs.

[sander]

Some more checks. Please read and answer carefully.


So, your IP addresses are:

192.168.0.245 (client)
192.168.0.246 (server)

How do you know this? How have you discovered this? Are these not the IP addresses of other systems?

And: SABnzbd is running on the server?

Check again: on the client, can you

ping 192.168.0.246

Please post the output here.


If so, on the server, can you access: http://127.0.0.1:8080/sabnzbd/
FYI: that should work.

On the server, can you access: http://192.168.0.246:8080/sabnzbd/
I hope that works.

On the client, can you access: http://192.168.0.246:8080/sabnzbd/

If things don't work: are you using a Web Proxy?

[satd]

Guys,

I really appreciate all your help.  I've decided to give up.

SABNZBD is putting files in a hidden folder someplace on my machine when it can't find the time capsule (network drive) and I can't easily find it.  I found these files previously; now they are someplace and I don't know where it is.  Combining this problem with the ongoing networking problems per this thread (which aren't a problem for anything else) gets it to the point where I can't spend more time on this.  I'll just use it as a single user application and drag files between machines when necessary.  Its not as elegant, but it works very well.

I hope in future releases, it becomes possible to more easily manage the application from different machines (perhaps via a firefox plugin or an additional remote client), and also that files just aren't silently copied to random hidden directories when a network share is temporarily offline.

Thanks for all your help.  You've built an amazing application.

[Camelot]

you must remember that OS X is built upon a UNIX foundation. I bet you will find your missing files in one of the directories in /Volumes. Just use finder > Go > Go To Folder > /Volumes
and check all the subdirectories.

[satd]

In case anyone else runs into this, I've discovered a rather nice workaround for multiple machine access to sabnzbd as described in this thread.  Apologies in advance if its obvious to others here; it wasn't to me.

Simply set your server machine to watch a particular folder (I use the desktop).  All nzb files download here.  I also chose to have the actual files decompressed to the desktop.

Then set up your server to share the desktop (securely!) to remote machines.  Now, from a remote machine I just have to drag an NZB file over via wifi to the server desktop, it will download on the server and show up on the server desktop when it is ready.  And I can drag the downloaded file back from the desktop to the remote machine in exactly the same way.  You can't get real time progress reports on downloads, but you can see which files are ready just by checking the server desktop.

For me this eliminates all the complicated configuration issues described in this thread I had previously been facing with sabnzd across multiple machines.

P.S.  Camelot: MACOS does make use of hidden directories; I already searched for the folders without success.  They're out there someplace, one day they'll turn up.  lol