As Dean said, but direct port 22 from the Router/Gateway to the local IP of his system. Can be tough if in a corporate environment and you dont have that sort of permissions.
What stuff up was this ?? I had a Adept update last night for xorg, should I of not done it? Havent restarted X yet since I did the update .... > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:34:38AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: >> port forwarding. >> >> on the nat router, look under the games/applications menu >> (assuming its an appliance type router) >> >> Dean >> >> Alan L Tyree wrote: >> >The recent Ubuntu stuffup with xorg meant that I had to ssh to a >> >friends computer in the USA to get his X system going again. It was not >> >a problem since he has a "real" ip address. >> > >> >What if he was behind a NAT router? Is there anyway that I could >> >connect to his machine to fix him up? (I'm not much of a guru, but I >> >can do some command line things). >> > >> >Thanks, >> >Alan > > Configuring port-fowarding on the the router is clearly > the best if you can do it. > > If you want nerd points, you (he) could compile netcat with > GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE and use it to allow external people > to use a connection initiated from the inside. You'd use > ssl options or one of the netcat-like tools that use ssl. > > Matt > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
