[Savant-discuss] RE: Firewall troubles & @Home problems

[Quince a. <qui...@ho...>]

I think both of your problems might have to do with the default setting
of Savant.  By default there is a box that, if left blank, will default
to the computer you are on.  This box also controls where the pages
people will be served at (so if the name at the bottom of the window
says something other than your IP address or DNS you might have this
problem).  For instance, if the text at the bottom says 192.0.0.2 then
that means whenever someone tells Savant "Hey!  I'm here!  Send me
something!" then Savant says "The file you want is at
192.0.0.2/index.html"  Of course, the other computer, having no clue
what Savant is talking about, can't find 192.0.0.2.  You have to tell
Savant (and thus the little box on the first config screen) that the
pages that it serves are from "my.dns.or.ip.here" so that whenever
someone yells at Savant wanting files that Savant says "The file you
want is at my.dns.orip.here/index.html" and everything is served up
peachy.  This also means that if for some reason your IP changes and
you've manually configured it then Savant will send everyone to the bad
IP and no files will be served. :)

Oh, and yes, Savant works under DHCP...you just have to make sure Savant
is sending people to the right place.