Hello,
Does anyone know what to configure Windows Media server
for Win2K to accept ASX files or mms:// calls from only
one IP address? The media files need to be played on any
IP address.
We are trying to prevent unauthorized users from
accessing the video files directly. We know we could set
up NTLM permissions on the Windows Media Server, but that
is impratical because the users are constantly changing.
We could provide a single username and password to the
userbase, but that would likely create the problem we are
trying to avoid. The alternative would be to be able to
send the user name and pass from within the asx file to
the server, but I have not found a solution for that.
What we do know is that all requests to play files will
come from one IP address through asx files. If we can
find a way to restrict to server from accepting mms calls
from only that IP address, this would resolve our issue.
Does anyone have any ideas?
(the server that has the asx files is not on the same
domain as the media server..and cannot be).
Thanks
Ravi Raman - 30 Jun 2004 03:59 GMT
Can you explain the scenario better? The WMS 4.1 in Win2K
supports IP masking:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;274158
but I am getting a feeling that this is not what you want.
What you can do with this is to allow streaming only to
clients that have specific set of IP Addresses (or just
one IP with a mask of 255.255.255.255). Note that
firewalls, proxies can mask the original IP of the client.
Also, you might want to read through
http://www.elims.org/wmsecure.htm - this is a third party
authorization plug-in for WMS4.1 that might be closer to
what you want but not sure if it will match your
requirement exactly.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Ravi
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