iFolder clients outside the Firewall using nonstandard ports are unable to connect to iFolder server

  • 7005620
  • 02-Apr-2010
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment


Novell iFolder 3.x

Situation

iFolder access works when  inside the Firewall
iFolder client outside the Firewall is connecting to iFolder using nonstandard ports
Firewall/Router is doing port forwarding

Resolution

This is fixed in iFolder client version 3.8.0.0 which is included in OES 2 SP2

Additional Information

Other things to watch for when configuring external access:

- Configure iFolder server to use the same DNS name (instead of an IP address) for public and private URLs.
- Use two different DNS servers, one for inside address resolution and the second for outside address resolution
- The inside DNS server should resolve the iFolder DNS name to the private IP of the iFolder server.  The outside DNS server should resolve the iFolder DNS name to the public IP address of the firewall/router