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The small businesses worldwide depend on NCH’s software solutions that are easy to use on the one hand and affordable on the other. NCH’s product suite includes more than 80 audio, video, business, and telephony/VoIP software solutions. The company takes pride in the fact that their software products come with all the bells and whistles of typical brands, but without the complexity.

No wonder, the company website attracts more than four million unique visitors and nearly three million downloads per month. Through a recent press release, NCH announced the enhancement of its website through the integration of educational resource in form of video-tutorials.

This new NCH offering is designed to help users make their computer accessible to others over the Internet when using server-based software or VoIP applications. The NCH officials informed that the website covers the basic issues that can arise in the process and offers solutions through a series of video tutorials and additional resources.

The video-guided NCH resource is just perfect for the novices who might find difficulties in setting up the system by themselves.

NCH Software (News - Alert) provides many software applications that can be run as server-based applications, making the program features available over the Internet. The company explained that enabling web access features gives users remote access to the program and its data, as well as allows varying levels of access to multiple users of the program. For the novices, the NCH video tutorials will help identify the most common roadblocks that might be encountered when trying to set up these types of programs and show the steps it takes to allow outside connections to fully take advantage of these server-based applications.

The videos handle each topic individually and help overcome the challenge that might prevent someone from connecting to the local machine over the public Internet. Topics covered are:

Make your router forward connections to the computer: 
A video explaining the problems with NAT routers and connecting to server based applications.

Setting up your firewall so it does not block connections:
A video reminding users where all firewalls are located and gives basic instructions on how to create exceptions for your application in those firewalls.

Address and connect to your PC:
A video explaining what a static IP is and how to get one.

STUN:
A video explaining what STUN is, and how much control you have over it when it comes to setting up your VoIP applications.

The tutorial series has been originally created as a resource for NCH Software users. But the topics covered in the series would help anyone trying to apply the concept to enable remote access to a local network. According to NCH, whether you are broadcasting music or video from your computer, using VoIP applications, gaming, or enabling the remote-access features of a business application, this resource comes handy in opening up that connection.