Topic: Accessing e-smith-manger via HTTPS

[John Bennett]

I think this has come up before, but I couldn't find an answer.  I manage a few e-smith servers runing SME 5.0.  I have put my IP address in as a local address.  I would like to have the ability the remotely access the e-smith-manager screen via HTTPS.  When I go to http://xx.xx.xx.xx/e-smith-manager, I get a login screen.  After I log in, I get a message from IE that states the page contains both secure and non-secure items, and do I want to display the non-secure items.  If I answer yes, then the left side of the manger screen does not come up.  I get the old page cannot be displayed.  If I answer no, then I get navigation cancelled on the left frame.  If I use my e-smith server from home as a reference to see where the links are going, I can manually type in the links and get to the screens I need.  Example, If I type https://xx.xx.xx.xx/e-smith-manager/cgi-bin/blades, I will get the blades screen.  .../cgi-bin/printer, will give me the printers screen, etc.  So, it is partially working and seems possible, I just need to know how to get the left hand frame to come up using e-smith-manager or by using port 980 (:980).

All suggestions welcomed.

Thanks,

JB

[Gordon Rowell]

Don't set up a remote address in Local Networks, explicitly
allow remote addresses HTTPS access:

http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo@lists.e-smith.org/msg05038.html

This will be a HOWTO soon.

Warning - all remote manager access has some inherent risk.

Gordon

[benoit]

just forget about it and do it the simple way.. log into the box by ssh (secure and esay ; use putty.exe on windows or the command line in any unix) than give admin + pass it will bring up the console, then chose acess manager whit text broser (pass again) and there u go... ok u don't have fancy intreface but lynx do the job and this is a secure option that u can acess form anyware

[John Bennett]

I did that, but could not get the blades portion to work correctly.  Everytime I selected yes to everything to update, then choose to install, I always got an error saying I hadn't selected everything.  I am very familiar with putty, ttssh, etc. and did try those avenues first.

[John Bennett]

Thank you for the help.

[Patrick Myles]

Right,

I also struggled with this for a while - I tried to set up a local network etc. etc.

In the end, I used the port-forwarding features of my ssh client (SecureCRT). This will forward a port on my local machine (outside the e-smith network), to one of the remote machine (my e-smith server).

Connect via ssh as admin or root, and set port 980 to be forwarded to 980 on the remote host.

Now you can access the manager with http://localhost:980

This works brilliantly for me.

SecureCRT is a commercial ssh client, but freely available ones will also do port forwading.

Hope this helps,

Patrick Myles