Im running/have a firewall, home router or ICS. How can I set up a web, ftp, mail server, quake, Half-life or UT server on my home internal network so that people on the internet can see it??
You must open ports on your firewall or forward ports on your router to the internal address of the server on your home network. So if you are running a web server on internal IP 192.168.1.69 you would forward external port 80 on your firewall/router to 192.168.1.69 port 80. You can do this through most home router’s advanced administration (RTFM). For ICS it’s a little tricky but MS tells you how to do it here. Here is a web page that lists the ports for commonly used applications.
