Re: can't connect with Sony Bravia KDL-40Z5100

[William McCoy <wdm8588 gmail com>]

Ok, I used the Firewall Configuration tool to make eth0 a trusted 
interface and it works now.  I can can serve video and music to my 
Bravia TV, but not images.  This appears to be consistent with what has 
been reported for other Bravia models.

Thanks for your help.


On 02/20/2011 04:39 PM, Jens Georg wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 15:59 -0500, William McCoy wrote:
> > Yes, I think it is a firewall issue.  But I don't know what services to
> > enable or on what port.  Do you know of an iptable configuration that I
> > should use?
>
> Is you home network such a hostile environment?
>
> > I do have multicast DNS enabled -- that's the only thing I've seen
> > mentioned in the mailing list archives.  Do I need to have an httpd
>
> No, that's avahi/rendezvous/bonjour, the other service discovery
> protocol.
>
> > daemon running?  I notice that my Bravia seems to send out some packets
> > referring to HTTP/1.1:
>
> No, that's the SSDP protocol. It's based on HTTP but Rygel handles that
> for you.
>
> If you insist on running a firewall, you probably need to bind Rygel to
> a specific port (let's say 34567 for demo purpose here) and the
> following:
>
>   - Your host needs to be reachable on
>     * 239.255.255.250:1900/UDP,
>     * 192.168.1.104:1900/UDP
>     * 192.168.1.104:34567/TCP
>
> Note that I've never tried that myself.
>
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