Mindterm webaccess, SSHd and firewall

[David A. Curry]

>>>>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, l:x, identified as "lx" below, wrote:

  lx> Is it possible to use Mindterm to get webbased SSH-acces to my server
  lx> connecting to port 8080 (and forwarding to port 22)?

Yes, you can connect to your server.  Here's all you do:

1. On your Linux box, edit OpenSSH's sshd_config file (it's probably in /etc)
   and add the lines:

	Port 22
	Port 8080

   This tells it to listen on BOTH port 22 and port 8080.  Obviously, you can
   use any port number you want instead of 8080 (and you can have more than 2
   Port lines if you want).

2. If you have a firewall at home, open up port 8080 (or whatever).

3. On you PC at work, create a .mtp settings file for your machine (this file
   will live in

   C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\mindterm\yourhost.mtp

   Put the following in it (edit it with notepad):

	server=your.home.machine	<-- domain name or ip address
	port=8080			<-- or whatever port you chose, above
	
	proxy-host=work.proxy.name	<-- if you need one
	proxy-port=some.port		<-- 80 or 8080 most likely

	proxy-username=xxx		<-- try domain\username

  If the file is already there, just make sure the lines above are in it.  If
  you're not sure if you need the proxy lines or not, check Internet Explorer
  Tools->Options->Connections->LAN Settings and copy whatever proxy name is
  there (and maybe port number).

That should be all you need.  The proxy will probably prompt you (in the Mind-
Term window) for username and password if you need it; try domain\username if
plain username doesn't work, where domain is your Windows domain.

This works great for me; I go out through our Bluecoat proxies at work on port
8443 into my Solaris box at home.  Everything just works.

If you wanna do all this stuff using the applet version of MindTerm, you can
do that too, just put all the .mtp file stuff into applet parameters.  See
the "Running MindTerm" link on the MindTerm home page.


--Dave