Topic: SME Server using Satellite Link

[CharlieBrady]

Does server-manager use more than one port?

Just port 443 should be sufficient.

[mmccarn]

For remote server-manager, I usually do this:
* Setup ssh access using public/private keys (password login disabled): http://wiki.contribs.org/SSH_Public-Private_Keys
* Change the port used by SSH in order to reduce log noise about scripts trying to hack into my system: http://wiki.contribs.org/SSH_Port#Procedure:_SME_7.2
* Create an ssh tunnel from my workstation to the SME server for port 443
  putty root@aa.bb.cc.dd -P newportnum -i <privatekeyfile> -L 443:localhost:443
* run server-manager at localhost - https://localhost/server-manager


How did you create your port restrictions?  Connections to /server-manager are somehow involved with a proxypass directive from localhost to localhost port 980 - so if you created manual port restrictions that might apply to local connections, this might explain why turning them on kills server-manager.  Try opening port 980 from localhost to localhost...