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Hexorg

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Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 27

Accessing LAN over NET

Good daytime to you! I'm trying to see if I can access my apache server on my computer over the internet without port forwarding. We have a cable modem connected to the router, and 3-4 computers are connected to the router at a time:

[IP:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx cable-modem] <--> [router]  <--> [IP:192.168.1.101 MyComp; IP:192.168.1.102 comp2; IP: 192.168.1.103 comp3 ... ]

With port -forwarding everything works great, at collage I type http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and it connects me right through. But i was wondering if could use something like http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/192.168.1.101 to connect to exactly my computer, without port forwarding. Of course, that didn't lead to any success.

so is it possible to access directly my computer in our LAN, and how?

tam1138

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Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 238

Re: Accessing LAN over NET

I would run OpenVPN on one of the computers inside your network and port forward just the VPN connection.  Properly configured, this will give you access to your entire network as if it was local.

Hexorg

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Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 27

Re: Accessing LAN over NET

Hm... I was thinking to get a low-power machine to use as a headless nfs, cups, and apache server, vpn might just do the trick. Thank you

goosed

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 24

Re: Accessing LAN over NET

One thing you could do is ssh to your box with dynamic ports open in putty. Then just set your browser's proxy at college to something like localhost:8080.

They block all kinds of stuff where I work, so if I need to access my box from home I just ssh in and then I can access my LAN via Firefox.