[nzlug] remote access to my home machine

[Simon]

On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 23:34 +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> Um, your machine runs what? And what are you connecting to it with and 
> where from?
Ubuntu 7.04 - the public machines have been described in the original
post.

> 
> Assuming the home machine is some sort of Linux, then ensure that sshd 
> is running.
That would be right and this is no problem.
Done it before and successfully teach others to do it.

> 
> Configure the router to forward port X to port 22 on the home machine. 
> (Port X could be port 22 as well).
> 
I gotta go to the port forwarding part of the router configuration, OK.
Presumably the same for other services. At the risk of sounding
extra-naive, how do I find out the public IP?

> Assuming the remote machine is some sort of Windows install Putty and 
> configure it to connect to port X on the router.

Not my machine - not able to install to it.
If I got real desperate, I guess I could try the XP telnet.