Using fish:// through a router

judland

Beginner

Posts: 29

Location: Sask., Canada

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Sunday, April 24th 2005, 2:06am

Been using fish:// via Konqueror to transfer files and such between my home networked PC. Wonderful!

Now, I want to do the same remotely (that is, on a PC away from home). How do I connect to one of my home PCs behind a router?

Usually, you just type fish:// followed by your IP address. However, my PC's IP address is a 192.168.......... If I want to connect from the outside world, I'd have to use the IP address given to me by my web providers. But, that IP address is assigned to my router, not the PC I want to connect to.

So, how do I tell Konqueror to fish:// to an IP address and route through to a particular PC on that network through my home router?

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wysota

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Posts: 65

Location: Warsaw, POLAND

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Sunday, April 24th 2005, 9:27am

RE: Using fish:// through a router

You have to forward your ssh port from this local machine to the router. Basicly firewalls are for hiding things that are beneath them

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judland

Beginner

Posts: 29

Location: Sask., Canada

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Sunday, April 24th 2005, 3:10pm

Ah, that's a good lead in the right direction.

Yes, the router does it's job well. I just wasn't sure how to proceed in this instance. Thank you for the direction.

Now have to go read about forwarding ssh ports

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SirTalon

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Sunday, April 24th 2005, 8:43pm

Actually turning on port fowarding on your router and fowarding a port on your router to SSH's port should be all thats needed.

Then you would just do: fish://my-router-ip:port

It may be best if you use a non-standard port so you don't attract too much attention (someone may notice it and try and just brute force root).

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