Re: The process of setting up a Ratflector, help.
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Dear Keith and Chris,
Chris's recommendation is correct and a good one.? However, if you want to go one step further, you can also check "trust localhost" on the ratflector, start up an instance of d-rats on the same machine as your ratflector, name the d-rats instance as your ratflector name plus add "-R", and add a radio in preferences to localhost.? Then anyone connecting to your ratflector will also see in the Stations Panel your instance of D-RATS (name would be W5MPZ-R for example).? Anyone could then connect to your instance of d-rats-R, and upload and download files.? SFARES does this to store all our resource files.? This is another valuable use of d-rats.
73 de N4VIP, Don Hinsman and Happy Holidays
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 10:00 AM, chris@... [d-rats_group] <d-rats_group@...> wrote:
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Hi Keith,
Looking at?, if you want to run an internet-only Ratflector it is as basic as running the?d-rats_repeater.exe server, check the "Accept incoming connections" box and entering a port number.
After you've done that, it is a matter of directing users to connect to this over the internet and unfortunately this is the most variable part of it. Depending on your internet configuration, routers, firewalls and etc, this could be simple or very complicated.
If your server has a dedicated IP address and you use port 9000, you would just give this IP address and port to users.
Sincerely, Chris Arnesen, KU7PDX Washington County ARES/RACES D-STAR Repeater Administrator
-- 73 de N4VIP (SFARES EC, Santa Fe and San Miguel Counties DEC),?Don
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