Port Forwarding Easy File Sharing Web Server on the Actiontec GT704-WG
Before we can forward ports for Easy File Sharing Web Server, we need to figure out what ports Easy File Sharing Web Server is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up Easy File Sharing Web Server.
On the main page of Easy File Sharing Web Server, you will see a bunch of options. There should be a Port box right at
the top of the Easy File Sharing Web Server page. This box contains the port that needs to be forwarded in your router for Easy File Sharing Web Server
to work. You can change this port to whatever you like. If you change the port to something other than 80, people connecting to Easy File Sharing Web Server
will have to specify that port number when connecting. Let's say your routers external ip address is 205.181.0.9, and you specified port 500 in
Easy File Sharing Web Server. Someone connecting to Easy File Sharing Web Server would type http://205.181.0.9:500 into their web browser. Please
enter the port you chose for Easy File Sharing Web Server below.
Easy File Sharing Web Server's server port
Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal IP address of your router in the address bar of your browser.
If you do not know your routers internal IP address please read our How To Find Your Routers IP Address guide.
In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the internal IP address of your router.
By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.0.1.
Click the Setup / Configuration link.
Click the Advanced Setup link near the left of the page.
Click the Begin Advanced Setup button.
Click the Application Level Gateway link near the left of the page.
Put a dot into the User radio button.
Click the New button.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Easy File Sharing Web Server requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Rule Management menu and then click Apply.
| Rule Name | |||
| Protocol | |||
| Port Start | Port End | ||
| Port Map |
When you are finished, click the Back button.
Use the LAN Device box to choose a computer to forward ports to. This box contains a list of computer names that are visible on your network.
Select the applications you just created in the Available Rules list, then click the Add>> button to move them to the Applied Rule box.
When you're finished, click Save and Restart near the left of the screen to save your changes.
And that's it! You're done!
To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Port Checker tool.
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