Topic: connecting to e-smith-manager help

[Scott Kendall]

I unfortunately have an @Home connection to the internet which blocks several incoming ports to prevent people from running servers.  This means that I cannot access the E-Smith-Manager from outside my network.  Is there a way to change what port connects to the manager?

Scott

[trevor]

Scott Kendall wrote:
>
> I unfortunately have an @Home connection to the internet
> which blocks several incoming ports to prevent people from
> running servers.  This means that I cannot access the
> E-Smith-Manager from outside my network.  Is there a way to
> change what port connects to the manager?
>
> Scott

You can only access the e-smith-manager page from INSIDE your local network.

You should be able to use SSH from outside to access the Admin Panel to make changes if required. I use Putty as a client.

Make sure that you have enabled SSH login from the e-smith-manager panel.

Good Luck.

Trevor B

[steve macgregor]

Scott,

I have an @home connection as well, and I am serving 4 (mostly under development) web sites, and I have not had trouble accessing my e-smith manager. I would recomend using ssh, but telnet has worked for me when I needed it. I usually just set the telnet settings open when I was leaving for work, took care of business in my server, and then closed the proverbial telnet door.

Just fire up telnet and throw in your IP, log in as admin and pow! you are in! It is as easy as that. As far as @home, well, they haven't sut me down yet... Knock on wood. Let me know if I can help you further.

Steve

[Dan]

I'd enable SSH rather than take risks with security on telnet.

PUTTY client works as easily as telnet and won't compromise your network.

Once you have a SSH session just use the LYNX text browser to assess the e-smith configuration pages.

Dan