[nzlug] remote access to my home machine

[Andrew Bruce]

Putty (SSH Client) will run off a USB key, without requiring an install 
to the local system.  You would need to forward the SSH port (22) from 
your router to your internal box.  I would recommend setting it up so 
that you do something like access the connection from the outside on 
port 2222 and map this to port 22 on your machine when you do the 
forward (this will help with people trying to brute force into your 
box).  The problem with this method is that the hospital may block 
access to the outside, on ports that they can't control.

Alternatively, if the WindowsXP box will allow you access to the command 
prompt (Start > Run > cmd) then you can use the built in console FTP client.

Any help?

Andrew



Simon wrote:
> 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.
>
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