The purpose of this program is, to work as a replacement for dynamic DNS. It makes your current IP address available from a password protected website.

You need to register at the DynWebLink website first. Please follow the link below, if you haven't done it already.

DynWebLink Register New Account

After registration you receive an e-mail with your activation key.

Now download the DynWebLink installer program and run it.

Download Windows Version

The installer will install the DynWebLink Windows Service and the Client Tool. Please run the Client Tool from the desktop shortcut.

The Client Tool then, will ask for the activation key. Just copy the key from the mail and click 'apply'.

Setup is finished now; the client may connect and will show your current external IP address.

The Client Tool is installed together with the DynWebLink Service. Since it is linked into the startup folder, the program will start automatically at every user logon.

It is used to control the Service and show the current connection status and messages (e.g. reconnect warning).

The Tool doesn't have to be installed on the same machine as the service. To install it on other computers within your LAN, choose 'Custom' from the installation wizard and deselect the service part afterwards.

To connect to the DynWebLink Windows service running on a different PC, specify the name or IP address in the Client Tools service options.

You can also use the Windows Client Tool to control the Java version of the service, e.g. if your server is not a Windows PC.

The color of the icon indicates the current connection status.

The toolbar icon is also used to display messages, e.g. your current IP address.

Or a warning, if your internet service provider is about to drop the connection.

Just hover over the icon, to see your IP address and how long your PC is using it.

Right-click on the toolbar icon to get the context menu.

The Status Tab is the main tab; it will open whenever you open the Client Tool window. It displays your current connection status and IP-information; this is also the place where error messages may appear. On errors DynWebLink keeps trying to connect to the service.

The Options Tab is the place to configure the client. It has three sub tabs.

The reconnection warning tries to warn you, before your ISP drops the connection. This is especially helpful if you are into computer games. Usually it is not a pleasant experience if the connection drops in the middle of an important match. Your team mates are left with the frozen body, while you try to reconnect. Sometimes it is even not possible to jump back into the game, because from the games point of view, you are still there.

The warning is a simple stop watch. Some ISPs drop the connection every 24 hours. On every reconnect the stop watch is reset and warns again after the specified period (default 23 hours, 58 min).

This is not only useful for gaming. Some other programs might have problems too, if they are disconnected unexpectedly from the internet.

Obviously this cannot work for unplanned connection dropouts. It can also not work if the DynWebLink Service is not running while the IP changes.

This tab is used to choose the types of messages that should be displayed as a balloon over the toolbar icon.

This tab is used to configure the connection to the DynWebLink Service. If you have installed the Service on a different computer within your LAN, specify the computer name here.

The Client Tool does a version check once every 24 hours, here is the result. There will also be a link to the download page, if there is a new version.

Here is a link to this user manual, as well as two shortcuts to open the DynWebLink Login Page in your browser, either for status view or edit mode login. This is the same as available from the context menu.

The website has two login modes. 'Status View' mode and 'Edit' mode. Therefore you have picked two passwords during registration.

'Status View' mode is what you will use most of the time. It is used to show your current IP address and the specified links. You can give the password to other people, so they can connect to your server.

'Edit' mode is for your private use only. In this mode you can change the account data and the specified links.

In order to specify a weblink, for server programs that are accessible from a browser (WWW-Server etc.). You need to log into 'Edit' mode first and then select 'Edit Links' from the status page.

Specify a link, just like you would type it into the browsers address field. Instead of the server name, which is changing with your IP address, simply type #. This placeholder is automatically replaced with your current IP address.

There are examples on the 'Edit Links'-page.

Normally you don't have to change the configuration of the DynWebLink Windows Service.

If you cannot use the default configuration, create a XML-file with the changed settings. This file must be named 'service.xml' and stored in the DynWebLink program directory ('C:\Program Files\DynWebLink').

Use the following frame around the settings :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<setting>
<set name="service">
    your settings        
</set>
</setting>

Even though the specified encoding is UTF-8, you can save the file as ANSI, since no special characters are used.

In order to make the changes active, you need to restart the service from the Windows service control panel. It is not sufficient to reconnect the Client Tool.

If there is something wrong with the config and the service cannot be started, the error message is in the Windows Event Log.

A complete config file could look like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<setting>
<set name="service">
<entry name="UpdateTimeOut" datatype="int">
60000
</entry>
<entry name="ServicePort" datatype="int">
56001
</entry>
<entry name="ServicePortMask" datatype="string">
255.255.128.0
</entry>
</set>
</setting>