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| On Jan 21, 2:13 am, Vogon <srivatsav.prasa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I couldn't set up a direct route. I don't have the root a/c on the
> mail-server.
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> In fact, what I want is not exactly allowed by our system
> administrator.
> But there is no policy in place to bar something like this. Not
> yet. :)
Somehow, I suspect there is.
> I would need to have access to a machine outside the network if I am
> to set up a remote forward. But I don't have
> access to the client machine that wants these files. From what I
> understand of ssh tunneling I think I need access to
> the machine outside. Do correct me if I am mistaken.
How would the client be accessing these files? Via the web? FTP?
SSH? It's not clear. You seem to want to share some files via the
mail server, but no matter where the actual files are you'd need to be
running some sort of service on the mail server itself, which it
doesn't sound like you have permission to do.
> However, I'm only looking to share a _few_ files. It's just an effort
> to learn and deal with sockets effectively. Therefore
> I am prepared to write a simple program to achieve this. But I am not
> sure where to start.
In general it shouldn't be necessary to write any sort of software for
sharing files. That's already been done by many people in a variety
of methods. Any program you write would still have to run on a
computer behind a firewall and would be subject to the same
restrictions. This would not be the way to go about learning socket
programming either (I mean, a simple file sharing program in of itself
isn't a bad project, but that still has nothing to do with getting
around a firewall).
> Ideally, when I can get the name of the file the client wants and am
> able get the path to that file on my local machine,
> I can retrieve that file,transfer it to my mail-server machine and
> send it to the client.
>
Like I said, there'd have to be some sort of service running on the
mail server.
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