Topic: Routing external websites through an ibay

[Uncle]

Say for example there is website A and ibay B. There is also location C and location D.

Now location C can only access ibay B and no other sites (they access ibay B externally). Location D hosts the SME server and can access website A, ibay B and any other site like you normally would.

Is it possible to use SME to redirect website A through ibay B either as something to do with the ibay itself or as it's own ibay? Or does SME have some sort of forwarding that allows this to happen?

I have a server in one city and people who can access it's domain but cannot access any other sites (due to super strict firewalling and policies, etc.). Is there some way I can let them access other sites through my server??

I know there are things like YourFreedom which let you download things, etc. through them, even though they are blocked normally, as though you were linking to them directly so I know this kinda stuff exists, I just have NO clue how to do it! :3 Any ideas?

EDIT: And no it's not something dodgy! Just some friends that need to access their campus portal while out of town.

[cactus]

EDIT: And no it's not something dodgy! Just some friends that need to access their campus portal while out of town.

Typically this is setup using VPN.

[Uncle]

If people from location C can't VPN into the server, then what??

[Stefano]

ok.. so, what can do people form location C? https? ssh? openvpn?

Ciao
Stefano

[Uncle]

All people at location C can do is access the sites hosted by the server at location D :3

[mmccarn]

I can think of 4 ways to do this:

• Have the users VPN into your SME, then configure their browsers to use the SME proxy on port 3128
• Create an ssh tunnel to port 3128 on your SME, then configure the users' browsers to use the tunnel to access the proxy server.  (smeserver-remoteuseraccess lets you grant ssh access to user accounts, and this how-to describes how to create an ssh tunnel)
• Insecure: add the IP address of the remote users to your "local networks", and have them configure their browsers to use the SME as a proxy server
• Configure ProxyPass to provide access to the external domain through your SME (Here are my notes on setting up proxypass using a custom template fragment for access to Outlook Web Access.  I have successfully tested proxyass configured to pass requests to an off-site server, but not since SME 7.0)