TWP Password

[tc2000]

Evening

I have TW v.1.9.4 and TWP v2 running on my machine and I have set-up port forwarding on my router so that I can get remote access to Tivo.

I'd like to have the security of username and password and have amended my TW and TWP tivoweb.cfg file with:

LAN_Auth = 1
RSS_Auth = 0
HostsAllow =

UserName = myusername
Password = mypassword
Port = 80
Prefix =
EthernetInterface =

My problem is that I have set-up portforwarding to goto TWP, and its not asking for a username or password (either on my Network or remotely over the internet)! I have restarted TWP and my Tivo and still not working? TW does however prompt for a password.

I'm Confused... Any ideas?

Thanks
TC

[Pete77]

TWP becomes confused about the password in some situations. I had a situation where it just wouldn't accept the correct user name and password logging in over the web with TWP 1.3.1

Can't think how I resolved it now. Posssibly I edited the tivoweb.cfg file in a Windows Linux file editor etc to make sure I had got rid of any unwanted non Linux format information in the file. Anyhow in the end with enough fiddling there was a solution to the problem.

[Stradlingp]

Hi TC,

I've just tried this on my TWP 2.x setup and I get the same as you.

I can control the appearance of a password locally with LAN_Auth = 1 but it never prompts when accessed over the the internet.

Perhaps ask this question in the TWP 2.x support thread here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=343471)

Just to update my own post. I tested again and it worked fine. I was testing the 'external access' from my own network and TWP wasn't fooled.

When tested from truly outside my network, it was fine.