Software to connect to another network?

DPtheGod

DPtheGod

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I am not sure if this goes here or not, but I have a question about networks. I had to set up a surveillance camera for my uncle in one of his tanning salons, and he wants to have it set up so he can see what the camera sees at home.

Basically, the camera was manufactured by 4exem or something, and I installed all the software and got the camera to work and record. This is all in the tanning salon. Now, what he wants to do is, while at home, he wants to be able to log onto the network at his work, or make it so he can access the software that lets him view what the camera is seeing. However, the camera is installed onto the network in his store.

I am stumped and don't know what else to do. I have everything working except for connecting to the network at the store to open the camera.

Would I be able to use LogMeIn (or something similar) to do this?

Thanks in advance!
 
There are a couple ways of doing this, firstly by what means do you view the camera? is it a via a webpage? or via a program? you could either create a VPN, or forward the port that the program uses, therefore allowing access from the public IP.
 
Well, I have to access the camera via web page, I log into it via going to it's IP address. But there is a separate program used to record what the camera is seeing, and a separate program used to playback what has been recorded.

So, I'm not really sure which it would be, but I think I should try both methods.
 
if you log into its ip adress via web page, you should be able to access it from any computer with internet, as long as the network it was on had internet.
 
^ That's what I was thinking, and when we tried it, it didn't work. I wasn't sure what was going on. He looked at it as a fault on my end. lol

But when I go to the camera's IP it gives me a 404 error.
 
You need to forward the port! the reason you cant access it internally is probably because windows firewall (or whatever firewall your using) is blocking port 80 (im assuming its using port 80) so you need to unblock the port to allow you to view it from any computer within your network, and to view it from any computer outside of the network you need to forward port 80 (or whatever port it uses) to the local ip address that its on.
 
Homenet said:
You need to forward the port! the reason you cant access it internally is probably because windows firewall (or whatever firewall your using) is blocking port 80 (im assuming its using port 80) so you need to unblock the port to allow you to view it from any computer within your network, and to view it from any computer outside of the network you need to forward port 80 (or whatever port it uses) to the local ip address that its on.
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Ahh, I see. I am a noob when it comes to working with networks. Would it be possible for you to show me or tell me how to do that? :o
 
Homenet said:
You need to forward the port! the reason you cant access it internally is probably because windows firewall (or whatever firewall your using) is blocking port 80 (im assuming its using port 80) so you need to unblock the port to allow you to view it from any computer within your network, and to view it from any computer outside of the network you need to forward port 80 (or whatever port it uses) to the local ip address that its on.
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Well, most home routers run NAT, so it should block all remote connection requests by design. Homenet is correct though, you need to port forward to the machine that is running the camera server or whatever in the place of business.

Log into your router and input the information in the port forwarding tables.
 
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