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Hi,

I have sabnzbd running on the home theatre PC and setup sabnzbd as a service as per the How to install on WHS intstructions and all appears to be fine when logged in physically or remotely. The issue is that I was unable to log into sabnzbd remotely as was previously possible.

I did some tests where I stopped the service and then ran the sabnzbd exe and was able to log onto sabnzbd remotely.

I have not found anything on this in the forum, probably is just me. I presume that I should be able to have sabnzbd as a service and be able to logon remotely; is this correct and if so are there any known issues or suggestions to troubleshoot the issue?

Thanks

What do you mean "cannot logon remotely": is there no SAB webinterface at all, or is there an webinterface but you can't logon (wrong password or so)?

Which hostname did you enter in SABnzbd's Config->General?
"localhost" won't work, you need an empty hostname or 0.0.0.0
Also tell your software firewall to allow SABnzbd to setup its web interface
(allow incoming traffic on port 8080).

Sorry for the lack of clarity, what a shocker post.

On the HTPC when sabnzbd is running via the EXE I can access sabnzbd through Internet Explorer from my personal PC; when I setup sabnzbd to run as a service on the HTPC I cannot access sabnzbd through Internet Explorer.

When sabnzbd is run as a service on the HTPC when I log on at the PC or via remote desktop I can access sabnzbd (locally) but I cannot access sabnzbd through Internet Explorer from my personal PC.

In the 1st instance I manually configured the IP to 0.0.0.0 and port to 8100 and I can access sabnzbd through Internet Explorer from my personal PC using http://192.168.0.200:8100/

In the second instance when I set it up as a service I ran the following command "SABnzbd-service.exe -f C:\sabnzbd --server 0.0.0.0:8100 install" & "SABnzbd-helper.exe install" from the sabnzbd directory and rebooted the PC.

Thanks for asking for clarification and I hope this post does so.

You still need to tell your Windows Firewall to let
SABnzbd-service.exe listen to port 8100.

shypike wrote:You still need to tell your Windows Firewall to let
SABnzbd-service.exe listen to port 8100.

Hi shypike,

Thanks for the feed back but as I can access sabnzbd through Internet Explorer from my personal PC i.e. across the network when I run the sabnzbd.exe on the HTPC then it would indicate to me this is already in place.

Cheers.

SABnzbd.exe and SABnzbd-service.exe are two separate programs.
You need to give each permission in the Windows Firewall.

shypike wrote:SABnzbd.exe and SABnzbd-service.exe are two separate programs.
You need to give each permission in the Windows Firewall.

Hi shypike,

Thanks for clarifying and of course you were right

I had incorrectly assumed blah blah blah and after adding the SABnzbd-service.exe to the firewall I can now access this across the network.

Cheers