Help with Hamachi & Steam In-Home Streaming

[dsc106]

I have a gaming desktop PC at home, and my macbook pro 15" retina.

At my house, Steam in-home streaming works great to send games to my Macbook Pro. I read that you can setup hamachi on 2 systems and make Steam in home streaming become remote streaming...

However I am not getting this to work. I installed Hamachi on PC and Mac, created a network, and when I go to a coffee shop I can send a chat message home to my PC after connecting. The Hamachi connection is there and working...

However when I launch Steam on my Mac (yes, Steam is running @ home on the PC and this works at home) it does not recognize any devices/Steam accounts on the local network.

What do I need to do to get the Mac recognizing my Hamachi connection as the local network? So that Steam goes through Hamachi to see my home system as on the same network? So that I can access my Steam library remotely for streaming?

Not sure what changes to make in system preferences or other settings and not sure why this isn't working.

 

[Mushkins]

Sounds like security/firewall settings to me. I know on Windows there are different sets of firewall restrictions for Public and Private/Trusted networks, there's probably something similar with whatever Mac has built in these days.

Likewise, the coffee shop could (and should) specifically be restricting those connections. It's possible they're blocking something thats interfering with your Hamachi connection.

I'd try the same setup from a friends house or something where you know theres no corporate filtering. Should help you narrow down what and where the issue is occurring.

 

[azazel1024]

I am not very familiar with Hamachi, but if it isn't a site-to-site VPN tunnel, I don't think you are going to get it to work.

As for running remotely, not sure how well that is going to work for you. I'd think that Steam needs quite a bit of bandwidth to run remotely, between that and induced lag over the internet...

 

[dsc106]

it should work - people on steam forums report that it does!
the coffee shop connect on speediest is getting 80mbps down, and 20mbps up.

What firewall settings would I check on Mac and PC? What is a site-to-site VPN tunnel? I've used Hamachi before to play games with friends across the country that only support LAN play.

This isn't working at a friend's house either so it's got to be a Mac or PC firewall or network type setting but I'm not sure what to look for..

Thank you!!

 

[Mushkins]

it should work - people on steam forums report that it does!
the coffee shop connect on speediest is getting 80mbps down, and 20mbps up.

What firewall settings would I check on Mac and PC? What is a site-to-site VPN tunnel? I've used Hamachi before to play games with friends across the country that only support LAN play.

This isn't working at a friend's house either so it's got to be a Mac or PC firewall or network type setting but I'm not sure what to look for..

Thank you!!

First test I would do is the simplest. Turn the firewall off completely and see if Hamachi starts working. Beyond that, you'll have better luck over on the Hamachi website finding guidance with which ports and services need to be unblocked.

Another silly question, as i'm not familiar with Hamachi configs. How are you telling it what to connect to? Is it a direct IP connection?