[nzlug] remote access to my home machine

[Michael Adams]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:22:16 +1200
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.

FYI (not really solving your issue), firefox has a FTP client plug-in
now:
http://fireftp.mozdev.org/

> 
> 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.
> 

Filezilla is about the only windows GPL FTP client i know that allows
you to change *NIX file permission. DISCLAIMER My knowledge of Windows
FTP clients is not extensive:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/

> 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.
> 

Ah yeah, you could redo the whole site in Joomla or Drupal. Problem
solved 3 months later!?!

-- 
Michael
Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.