trade storage with dynamic DNS

Thanks nick, I have port forwarding set, I have upnp set, but I can not trade storage... I have the zone-alarm firewall. May be this is the problem. Is there a way to get more diagnostic info for what is wrong?

the easiest way is the icon of wuala, if its green everything is okay, or the options menu, and the storage submenu there...

look there for the "your computer is online for at least 17%...."
and "your computer is well connected" and the two buttons next to those entries...

"show graph" and "check again"....

you need to have green checkmarks next to them for everything to be okay....

and then ofcourse you will need enough uptime to get additional storage....

zonealarm and software firewalls can of course also be a problem... you will need to make zonealarm allow wuala as a server (i am not really familiar with zonealarm, but i think the category for incoming traffic (listening on udp/tcp ports and so on...) was an application to behave as a server....

simply allow wuala every kind of traffic in your zonealarm configuration...

server for internet and local/lan incoming/outgoing all directions... i think zonealarm also dislays some sort of green and red checkmarks or crosses. set everything to green=allow for wuala....

it probably looks like this (screenshot)
http://www.russharvey.bc.ca/graphics/...

there you see... the access columns is outgoing traffic. wuala needs green marks there in both columns, and the "server" columns are the inbound/incoming traffic... you also need green marks there for wuala. everything green for wuala....

hope it helps.

No way!
I enabled UPnP, I added the external IP and port 7288 in the NAT/SUA Only. When I check again the message is the following:

Analyzing Connection...
Got answer from Ping Server A, your external adress is /84.227.131.90:10376
Got answer from Ping Server B, your external adress is /84.227.131.90:10377
Trying UPnP...
...no UPnP router found.
/84.227.131.90:7288 does not accept incoming connections.
It seems your connection is not suitable for trading storage.
Please enable UPnP on your router/firewall or configure it manually to forward incoming UDP connections
on port 7288 to this computer. If you have already done so, you
might need to restart your router and/or Wuala.

Thanks.
Marco

i dont really understand what you are doing exactly... did you enable server-mode for wuala in your zonealarm? i posted the screenshot... is everything green on all zones for wuala.exe programm? otherwise it will not work....

wuala uses a udp port. so you need to enable accepting connections inbound and map the udp port....

go into your zonealarm configuration and give permission (green marks) to the line where wuala is being displayed in the table of zonealarm.

see this screenshot:
http://www.russharvey.bc.ca/graphics/...

it is probably similar at your place. set the green marks at all four zones in your zonalarm for wuala.... (rightclick i think or double click and then toggle the marks...)

when you have wuala set for all green marks in zonealarm, also check your internet-gateway/router for correct portforwarding.

maybe this site will help you if you dont know what to do:
http://portforward.com/

there are lot of software/hardware portforwardings described there.

Hi nick,
all 4 marks are green (for all 3 wuala icons in zonealarm)
When I want to forward the port I need to insert an IP but my IP changes all the time...I am connected through a hub directly to the DSL modem/router ZyXEL. I tryed with IP 192.168.1.2 (ipconfig told me) and also 127.0.0.1.

Still not suitable for trading storage!

Where can I enable accepting inbound connections and where/how can I map the udp port?

Is there a way wuala configures all this? or at least tells me step by step what to check and what to set?

Thanks.
Marco

I think Your Problem Is not the external dynamic IP-adress.
Check your lan! I think so couse i have to forward an port to one fixed IP.
You have to configurate your Windows (???) Network Settings

Hope that Helps

Sorry about my bad english

wuala is able to do upnp (on windows at least), with a upnp-capable router and for example with windows xp sp2 and the appropriate services enabled and the windows firewall (or other softwarefirewalls configured)

i dont know what kind of network setup you use exactly. what model is that zyxel exactly? and what kind of dsl (provider/country) do you have?

you only need to map a port from any external ip address your router gets on the public internet/dsl-network (of your provider) to your internal (probably static/semi-static with dhcp) client where wuala is running.

suppose that 192.168.1.2 is your internal windows client running wuala.

then you start wuala there and look inside the configuration dialog, it will show you a portnumber. thats the udp-port you need to map on your zxyel router (if its really a router, if it "dials/connects" into the dsl network.

that router needs to do the network translation stuff (also called NAT) from the single outside public ip-address of your dsl-provider (the zyxel dsl router will have that ip address assigned as its external ip-address), and it will need to map the network packets to the internal private ip addresses like you said 192.168.1.xxx 1 to 254 for example... if you have multiple clients/servers on your local netzwork (lan)

so you need to do that portforwarding of the one udp-port which wuala uses from the external network (dsl-ip=public-internet) to the port on the windows box on the inside ip-address and port which wuala uses on the windows box....

thats actually all described on the portforward.com sites and many others out there on the internet.

you need to read the manual of your zyxel router.

but if the router supports upnp (not only readonly but also "write"/modify), than wuala speaks "upnp" with the router, and they will do all this portforwarding and networking configuration stuff by themselves....

try to download upnptest.exe from a site and see if it can tell you anything about your upnp-status on your windows box. you will find it here:

http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=dst...

try to find out if your router can do upnp and then try the upnp-method as the most easy way.

other than that, you need to get some basic knowledge about broadband-internet gateways and homenetworking with private ip-addresses and NAT (network address translation), or simply read some good manual of your zxyel.

or tell us the name of that zxy device and maybe we can help you better.

did you actually ever read through some of the zyxel stuff on portforward.com ? there are plenty zxy examples, and you should be able to figure it out for your device, even if its not exactly the same as the examples on portforward.com

http://portforward.com/english/router...

you only need to know the internal ip address of your windows machine where wuala is running at and the wuala portnumber.

the port is of "udp" type, and thats all. add. set. ready.

i could be wrong ofcourse if you have some nasty zxyel stuff, old hardware or something like that... maybe you might also consider getting yourself some decent router for your home-lan. they dont cost much these days. maybe that zxyel is just too complicated.

but unless you supply us with some model name/number and some details we cant really tell for sure.

but then again you might maybe also be dialing into the dsl network right from your windows machine, without the use of a router, but that zyxel box being only a dsl-modem, so without its own configuration-website, and without the need to set-up portforwarding and so on...

if you dial/connect into the dsl network of your provider yourself directly from windows, then you have to configure your firewall(s?) on your windows machine correctly, thats all.

what ip-address has your computer when you are connected to the internet?

post the outputs in the commandline of "ipconfig /all"

if you have only 192.168.x.y addresses or similar other private addresses you are very likely behind a home-router/gateway.

if you have "real" addresses, then you are dialing with the windows box itself into the dsl-network.