In The Beginner's Guide to Orthanc, Emsy Chan says, "If you want to access Orthanc Explorer from other computers besides the one you installed it in, you'll need to allow remote access." How does one actually gain remote access to Orthanc?
I have Orthanc installed on a Win7 device. HttpPort is set to "8042." RemoteAccessAllowed is set to "yes." The Orthanc service was restarted. What am I missing?
Please let me know if you need any further information.
Hello,
"RemoteAccessAllowed" should be set to "true" (without the quotes), not to "yes". Furthermore, if the HTTP authentication is enabled, you will have to setup an user inside "RegisteredUsers."
HTH,
Sébastien-
After making those changes, did you try merely accessing:
http://<ip_address>:8042/
?
I should have payed more attention when I was submitting my post. RemoteAccessAllowed is actually set to “true,” not “yes” (without the quotes). HTTP authentication is similarly enabled, and a user is set up.
Do you have your firewall turned off?
This most probably indicates that a firewall blocks your connection. Try and shutdown the firewall on the computer where the Orthanc service is running.
Please also post your configuration file so that other people can give a look.
Sébastien-
I had the same problems with the remote access on Microsoft Windows. I turned all the firewalls off and now the remote access is working as expected on my test-configuration with 3 Orthanc servers, installed on my PC's Windows Vista-32, Windows 7-64 and Windows 8.1-64.
I attached a screenshot from my MacBook showing the local access to the OSX Orthanc server and the remote access to the 3 Windows servers with the Safari browser.
Marco Barnig, Luxembourg
P.S. Orthanc is a great project. My compliments to the author.
