Hi again, bit exited now I have wol!!

I have a dedicated server for my friends and family who have there own accounts to access the server to leave and take from me with restrictions in place!

I am giving them the oportunity to wake up my computer with wol and then hope to allow them to shut it down with a simple shutdown command using webmin as my interface.

I know that I can create accounts for them - giving them certain access rights. What I am not sure about is can they access the webmin interface from outside my home network? If yes to this question - how?

Are there any experts on webmin who can help me with this matter?

If you have other suggestions - all ears. Please give me examples if you have suggestions.

Thanks as always for the great support you find here at linuxquestions!!


bookie

you can allow them to access webmin out side from your network if;

1) you have an Internet connection and they have internet access .

2) your router is configured to forward incoming traffic on port 10000 (assuming webmin is running on default port) to your linux box.

3) if there is a firewall in your linux box it is configured to allow access to port 10000

Thanks sunethj, I do feel stupid some days LOL

What if I happen to be sitting at a computer that is also routed to 10000 as default? Wouldn't they need a dedicated address to go to?

What I am trying to say is if they are routed to 10000 what else do they need to write so that they come to the right computer.

Sorry brain cells not so active today.

bookie

first let me get a clear pic of this. i assume the setup is as follows.

internet
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router (10000 port is forwarded to linux box)
| 192.168.1.254
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pc1 192.168.1.1 linux server 192.168.1.2

in this case if you know the internet facing ip of the router then the users should be able to simply access webmin by typing <http://internetip:10000> in their browser. i can't see any other requirement.

however i didn't get the exact meaning of

Hi sunethj, sorry for the delay in replying - been looking at webmin a little to try and see if I can give you info that you understand! Not your fault I assure you

Ok let us start from the beginning and look at a couple of scenarios that I am looking at.

1. My dedicated server stands outside of my firewall (smoothwall) I have set the network card for DHCP and my ISP gives me dynamic addresses (up to five I think). Anyway because of the ip's being not static I have created myself an no-ip address so that their updater can keep tabs on Isp's being changed and adjust accordingly.


If my server is behind my firewall, then I have a dedicated ip for that particular computer ie 192.168.0.150 for example. When inside my firewall I would normally use https://192.168.0.150:10000 which would get me access to webmin and obviously I can run that from which computer I like behind my firewall. But to get access to webmin outside my firewall - I am using DHCP and that changes continually according to how often my isp changes. What do I write in the browser to get access from work or allowing friends access from different countries. https://??????????:10000

At any given moment I can check the no-ip updater and give them the present ip from isp provider. But that sort of defeats the object. I want it so they can start and stop the server when they want.

I can of course setup an individual firewall for the server and govern access a little that way as well.

Am I making sense? Sorry if I am a little slow to catch on lack of brain cells....they need recharging at times

Please keep with me on this and I am sure the brain cells will get there in the end

Just wondering if they write https://no-ip.com:10000 no-ip .com is obviously fictitious.


bookie


bookie