[ILUG] Forgot to open a pinhole ...

[Daniel Stuart Kelly]

Might sound obvious,  Can you telnet to the router from the ssh session?
You should be able to set something up from there...

HTH
Daniel


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Dear guru,
>
> I forgot to open a pinhole for IMAPS on my home server
>  before coming over to Italy for a few weeks.
>
> I can ssh into my server,
> and thought I would be able to run firefox on that machine
> and open a pinhole for IMAPS on the modem
> (which only allows local access).
>
> But when I run firefox on my server in Ireland
> I never see anything on my laptop in Italy.
>
> Could you solve my little problem for me, please?
>
> Eg could I change IMAPS on the server
> to use the same port as ssh?
>
> Or is there some other way of accessing my modem "remotely"?
>
> If you have any suggestion, please cc to gayleard at eircom.net .
> I can read email when I have logged into my server,
> but it is very painful.
>
> [I'm able to re-direct some of my email to Italy,
> but it would be nicest if I could get it from my dovecot IMAP server.
>
> As always, all suggestions gratefully received.
>
>
>