[KLUG Members] remote laptop over internet?

[Patrick Stockton]

I used to run a web server off of my dialup account.  I had a shell script
run in the cron to query what the IP address of the ppp connection was.
This script would then update an HTML page on my ISP's website (which is a
known) with the current IP address of the PPP interface.  It would then just
redirect a visitor to the current IP address of my machine.

'ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \  -f 1'

is the command I used to isolate the IP address of ppp connection.

Hope this helps.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael W. Holdeman" <ptfd9100@beanstalk.net>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Cc: <linux-users@linux.nf>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 2:04 PM
Subject: [KLUG Members] remote laptop over internet?


>
> Hi all. I'm lost, and would like some advise on the direction I should now
> take. Here is some history, some pertinent some mabye not.
> -I currently have 4 machines running Linux, and 1 winders (stubborn user)
> -2 Desktops running eD2.4, Kernel 2.4.5 Win4Lin 3.0
> -Windows 98SE on teh desktop machines for Fire Department Legacy App.
(no-one
>   builds a "resonable" priced system for native Linux yet)
> -1 File Server/FireWall (I know not ideal) with a Dial-up connection. ppp
is
>   running on demand, and is connected at least 90% of the time.
> -1 IBM TP600 running SuSe 7.2 Proffessional, Win4Lin3.0, Windows 98SE
> All machines are 10bT.
> My ISP account is dynamic IP, and my internal LAN is static with "my own"
> pics from teh 192.168.?.? range.
>
>
> Thats the basics.
> Here is what I want to do.
> I frequently work 24Hr. shifts at University of ND FD. During that time I
> frequently do my local FD paperwork on the laptop. However when I arrive
back
> at teh office I have to start the individual apps and then I mount teh
> server, backup each app to teh server drive, tehn fire up the apps on teh
> desktop (which use the server for teh DATA drives anyway) and restore teh
> data from the backups created via the laptop. While this does work it is a
> bit clumsey and time consuming.
> So my question, can I use ssh, or something like that to connect to the
> server and mount the server nfs drive via the laptop. or does someone else
> have a better idea?
> I know nothing about IP tunneling but I think this is possible because the
> Server dialup is up most of the time. But how do I find teh server since
it
> internally is a 192.168... IP, and externally dynamic?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions, directions.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael W. Holdeman
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