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Title: User Password change - Difficulties
Post by: Mayur Mistry on July 09, 2001, 09:49:46 PM

Hello.

I have an installation of 4.1.2.  It is behind a router and users cannot get to the /e-smith-password web location.  This problem is from the Public side.  Private side I have no problems.

Are there any specific ports I have to allow on the firewall?  980 is diected to the e-smith server and allowing Public access for administration doesn't seem to help either.

Any thoughts?

Thanks... :)

Mayur... :)

Title: Re: User Password change - Difficulties
Post by: Paul Nesbit on July 10, 2001, 06:37:51 AM

Mayur Mistry wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I have an installation of 4.1.2.  It is behind a router and
> users cannot get to the /e-smith-password web location.  This
> problem is from the Public side.  Private side I have no
> problems.

This not a problem -- it is designed that way.  The e-smith-manager and e-smith-password pages are served by a seperate instance of apache, and that instance is only available to users on the local network.
 
> Are there any specific ports I have to allow on the
> firewall?  980 is diected to the e-smith server and allowing
> Public access for administration doesn't seem to help either.
>
> Any thoughts?

Have your users establish a PPTP VPN connection to the e-smith server.  They will then have local access priveleges, and can easily access local resources.

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/admin-remoteaccess.html

Paul

Title: Re: User Password change - Difficulties
Post by: Mayur Mistry on July 10, 2001, 08:02:45 AM

Paul.  

Thank you.  That certainly clarifies why all of my efforts were failing.

I will have them PPTP into the server.

Thanks again.

Mayur... :)