Click the Edit button at the top of the DUC window and you'll see the login window shown in step 5 above. If it's right, then the password is probably wrong. Is it right? It should be where host is the name that we registered for you in step 2. Look at the username at the top of the DUC window. The most common problem is getting the username and password wrong. Normally they will use the default FTP port of 21, but if you had to use a non-standard port, they will need to change the port number to the custom one you set up. If you had to use a non-standard port, they will still have to include the port number in the URI, for example : 8080/.įor FTP access, again use the domain name. To access your Share Your Sky! observatory web, your users enter /. Once you have registered your domain, your users will no longer have to wrestle with a (possibly changing) IP address. This will require you to have Admin rights. Here is what you will see:Įnable Enable a system service. After installation, the No-IP Dynamic Update Client (DUC) can be started.Do not change any of the defaults (install path or checkbox options). Be sure your ACP computer is online and can access the internet.If it changes, the applet sends the new IP address to the domain name servers, keeping the domain/IP translation current. This applet runs in the background and monitors your router's WAN IP address. Go to the Downloads page and download the updater applet.You'll get a username and password for step 6. We'll check your name to make sure it isn't already in use, then register it for you. People will remember those short names just fine.

Consider playing the 'vanity license plate' game and limiting your domain name to 8 characters or less. If you have an IAU observatory code, you could use it as your domain name, e.g.,. Leave the word 'observatory' out of the domain name, it inflates the length and your users know they're using an observatory anyway. Keep it short! Long domain names are more trouble for your users than IP addresses. Please read on, you already have the ability to use and the domain at no cost to you! Setting Up Your My-Sky Domain

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