[nzlug] remote access to my home machine

[Simon]

Here's something I didn't think I'd need to do!

My machine is behind a hardware router (DHCP) - so how am I supposed to
connect to it from outside?

ssh <URL>

fine... presumably I need the ipv6 URL of the router's external
interface and some means for the router to realise that I mean *this*
box. This is what I get

I suspect my main issue, though, will be having to do this using an XP
box that I cannot install anything to over the internet. Possibly a SUSE
box which only runs firefox. Maybe maybe maybe... I can beg a lappy from
someplace, goodness knows what it will be able to do, but at least I can
install tools on the sly.

But all this is putting the cart before the horse.

The problem to be solved is that I want to edit a web page away from
home. 

For this I need only a text editor and an ftp client.

The machines readily available are public boxes on a hospital network
all nicely secured. One SUSE 10.2 which will only run firefox and
nothing else. One XP box that seems reasonably default.

I have tried to see if the firefox will do the ftp for me... if it can
do it, I don't know how. But, it seems I don't have permission to write
to the HDD so there goes that idea.

I have tried hunting down an ftp client in XP. I did see a telnet
client, but no secure shell or anything like that. However: I am so
unfamiliar with windows now that I could easily miss something.

Googling for ftp windows howtos leads to a whole load of sites with the
opening line: "first you install an ftp client" ... can this be real?
You know, you get used to these things just being available.

The next thing I thought of was establishing a remote connection to my
machine and using that. Hence the opening question. Basically I have
just discovered a huge gap in my knowledge and no idea how to address
it.

hugehole at simonshead.net

nope...

Also looking into the possibility of online tools.