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Hello fine people.

My Deal:

Net at my place is crud. Net at my dad's place is tits. I would like to rape and pillage his bandwidth remotely from either my place or my iPhone..

He has Cable internet using a Motorola SB modem via ethernet, and Airport Extreme is also being used to distribute his net.

Now, I installed SABnzbd+ on his computer and ran through the wizard to set it up. Using an iPhone app named Tanis, I can connect and download files to his computer when connected to his Airport network. So, obviously the local stuff is set up correctly and working. However, when I disconnect from his local network I can't access the SAB interface to do my mischievous work..

So, my question, and plea is, how can I connect remotely via either a browser or my iPhone app to download my goodies on his computer??

I've searched all day and still can't figure it out

I've tinkered with all settings in SAB, forwarded ports 8080 and 9090 in Airport to what I assume is his IP, and so far come up empty handed...

Any help would be most appreciated.

Pep.

Extra info: I access Usenet via Astraweb on ssl.astraweb.com.

I cannot quite follow what you want to do.
Your iPhone will either be on Wifi or 3G.
In both these situations SABnzbd will be on a different IP address (local vs. public).
Most apps cannot deal with that.
So you would have to use the external IP address of the cable modem.
For this to work, you'll need to setup port-forwarding.
So the Airport needs to send incoming traffic on the SABnzbd port to the IP
of the system that SABnzbd runs on.
This way you're iPhone should be able to access SABnzbd, when Tanis
uses the public IP of the cable modem.
So even when you're iPhone is on the Wifi, it needs to use the public IP.
Now some routers do not understand what to do when devices on the local network
start using the public  IP.

Thank you kind sir for your quick reply!

On his computer he has a network widget. I did notice that this widget stated the following:

en0 10.0.1.2
External IP 108.465.336.720 (eg)

Now, after your post, I'm assuming that the 'en0' would be the Airport IP? And the 'external' would be the modem's IP? I may be wrong. However, when I ran the SABnzbd+ wizard, at the end it gave me 10.0.1.2/8080/sabnzbd one of my few options to connect to his computer.

If I need the external IP to connect remotely, how do I incorporate that into SABnzbd?

Thanks for your patience.

Edit: I'm not interested in connecting via wifi locally, I just want to get all my goodies over 3G remotely

The external address is not available for SABnzbd.
You just set it to use 10.0.1.2 or 0.0.0.0.
The Airport router is the only device that has access to the 108.456.336.720 address.
You need to go into its configuration mode
and set it up so that incoming traffic for port 8080 (assuming SABnzbd uses that port)
to the internal address 10.0.1.2.
How to do this in Airport, I cannot tell you.

Keep in mind that you will be exposing SABnzbd's UI to the whole world.
So set at least a decent username and password.

Thanks pal. I'll have a tinker and report back after work tomorrow.

Cheers.

Pep.