Topic: accessing /e-smith-manager/ from internet

[Tom Peck]

Hi

I want to enable the /e-smith-manager/ and the /e-smith-password/ interfaces for the internet (password protected).

I thought this could be done via the "remote access" page, but I can't find the option.

When I try to connect to the site over the internet, It attempts to connect to the internal IP of my e-smith server.  What have I done wrong?  My other websites work fine..  is there an easy fix for this?

Thanks

Tom

[Norman Dannug]

I don't think "/e-smith-manager" is available by default from the Internet.

But you can get to it if you use SSH.  

Check out "How to use MindTerm/SSH to access your e-smith server remotely (Darrell May)" (http://netsourced.com/e-smith/howto/howto-mindterm.html) found on the http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/ page.

I personally use TeraTerm with the TTSSH extension for Windows.  Go to http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html for more info on downloading and installing.

Once you have TeraTerm/TTSSH installed and running and SSH Remote Access to your e-smith server opened up to the Internet.  You can login (usually either as root or admin) to your e-smith server using TeraTerm/TTSSH.  Then in the TeraTerm/TTSSH window goto "Setup->SSH Forwarding".  Click "Add". Configure "Forward local port" "980" to "192.168.1.1" (or the IP address of the internal Network on your e-smith server) port "980".  Click "OK" and click "OK" again to get back to TeraTerm/TTSSH. Then open your browser and goto "http://127.0.0.1:980".  And you should be able to get into the "/e-smith-manager".

I don't know much about the "/e-smith-password" interface so I can't help you there without looking into it some more.

Hope that helps,
-Norm

[Tom Peck]

Thanks for the reply Norm - you must have gone back a few pages to come across it - it was posted almost 2 months ago!

I tried out the SSH client - but I still prefer my existing one - called Putty.. it's small and works perfectly... but anyway, back onto the topic.

Using SSH is how I have been getting to the e-smith manager up till now - and it works well enough for my liking, exept you miss out on the html prettyness

But - i have a few users with pop boxes on my machine which they check from the outside, and it would be nice to have the password page enabled for them so that they can change their login password.

E-smith has been setup so that the only allowed console login is root - admin goes straight to the control console.  This means that the only way to access any settings to change from the outside is knowledge of the root password - and obviously I don't want to give this out.

I have tried opening up port 980 to the outside, and accessing it, but it still doesn't work.  I've even mucked around with some of the access templates to try to remove the restrictions - but this just stuffed things up even more..  now I have given up.

Any ideas?

Tom

[Rob Hillis]

Tom Peck wrote:

> I want to enable the /e-smith-manager/ and the
> /e-smith-password/ interfaces for the internet (password
> protected).
> I thought this could be done via the "remote access" page,
> but I can't find the option.
> When I try to connect to the site over the internet, It
> attempts to connect to the internal IP of my e-smith server.
> What have I done wrong?  My other websites work fine..  is
> there an easy fix for this?

AFAIK the only way you can access the e-smith manager remotely is by establishing a VPN, and (if necessary) adding the relevant IP range to "local networks"

[Tom Peck]

Rob Hillis wrote:
>
> AFAIK the only way you can access the e-smith manager
> remotely is by establishing a VPN, and (if necessary) adding
> the relevant IP range to "local networks"

Rob

What I want is a way for my outside users (who access their POP mail from my e-smith server) to change their passwords - ideally the password web page already setup in e-smith, but this is only accessable by the internal network.

Having to setup VPN access for all users would not be ideal...

Thanks for the reply though

Tom