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Setting up Smarty

Postby Unicorn » Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:07 am

A mate of mine is having a problem setting up Smarty. Could it be true that someone is less techie than me?

Is it possible for them to set it up, or me to try and set it up, at my place, with my wifi or does it had to be set up with their wifi.


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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby firsttango » Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:36 am

What Specifically is his issue? What is he trying to set up VPN or the DNS? On what device?......

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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby Unicorn » Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:41 am

On a laptop. For some reason cannot set up, just a bit old and non techie. It is DNS, I suspect something quite silly is happening but would prefer to look at it at my place rather than slogging all the way over there, so, with my wifi by their laptop.

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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby firsttango » Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:49 am

Well in that case you should be able to input the DNS settings on his laptop for him on your wifi and if all good all he'd then need to do when he got home would be log in to his client area and Validate IP once back on his network. (set him up a quick link to his client area on his browser as a favourite or similar)
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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby Unicorn » Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:50 am

Thank you First tango, you've saved me a journey!!

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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby Enrique » Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:52 am

Hi unicorn,
Get friend to download Teamviewer and you can remote onto his system...........like I've done on yours ... :idea:
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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby gerryh » Sat Oct 07, 2017 11:18 am

The online guides, and online help, for setting up SmartyDNS are excellent and easy to follow.
I assume your friend has looked at the online guides?
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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby Unicorn » Sat Oct 07, 2017 4:14 pm

All done. Was set up but the dork was accessing VPN not dns. It worked at my house fine.

It is a rum old world where someone turns to me for tech advice...................

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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby markwilding » Sat Oct 07, 2017 4:29 pm

I have to admit that’s the fault with the Smarty site. It takes a bit of getting used to.
The advice I’ve seen on here is to bookmark the IP settings page so if need be, thecurrent IP settings can be updayed with little fuss.

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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby firsttango » Sat Oct 07, 2017 4:31 pm

Unicorn wrote:All done. Was set up but the dork was accessing VPN not dns. It worked at my house fine.

It is a rum old world where someone turns to me for tech advice...................
Glad it all worked out and saved you a trip :thumbup:

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Re: Setting up Smarty

Postby TorreDelAguila » Sun Oct 08, 2017 7:51 am

The addition of the VPN tab (and default to it) on the Smarty page is easily overlooked, and we've had to remember to hit the DNS tab! Easy mistake.
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