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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:43:16 +0000 Rob Beard wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:13:30 +0000 > > Rob Beard wrote: > > > >> From my workplace though I can only access the basic things like > >> webmail or send/receive files via FTP. I can't connect into my > >> home network using VPN, VNC, SSH or anything like that as it's > >> blocked by the company firewall. Unfortanately being a small fish > >> in a big company there isn't any way I'll be able to do this > >> either (unless I get some sort of mobile wireless internet access). > > > > I had the same issue at College... they allow only port 80 and 443 > > *outbound*. My resolution was to have my home router forward > > incoming traffic on port 443 to my server's on port 22. Then I > > tell my SSH client to use port 443 for outbound traffic et viola it > > works. Of course, since WinSCP also uses SSH, this works nicely > > too. :) > > > > (This does presume that you're not running an https server on :443) > > > > Grant. > > > > Yup, I have that problem, my e-mail runs on port 443. Still I only > tend to need e-mail from work so I can keep up to date on the LUG > mailing list :-) > > Rob I toyed with the idea of opening up a port for IMAP access to make life easier, but I got playing around with a few different webmail apps and found "RoundCube" to be really quite good. It doesn't (as far as I can tell) do filtering or processing, so I'm still trying to teach myself backend filtering (and relying on [Sylpheed-]Claws-Mail when I realise it hasn't worked), so keeping 443 available. I am also now toying with the idea of getting a second IP (Eclipse will let me have 2 static IPs for free), giving it a separate dyndns address and giving myself a bit more flexibility. :) Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html