Transferring files from shell account to winxp sysem behind firewall

[Infohawk]

I have a shell account on a sun system. I have a winxp system behind my school's firewall. I tried to set up an ftp server on the xp system but it doesn't seem to want to happen-- I'm guessing it's one of the many things that are blocked by my school.

How can I transfer files between the unix shell and my xp system. I'm totally out of ideas.

Rcp didn't seem to work either but I'm not getting the syntax so that might be it.

I tried to set up an ssh connection but it doesn't work since I have no way of transferring the key in the first place.

How can I transfer files?

Let me know if I can answer more questions.

 

[Lord Evermore]

I assume that you want to be able to send the files to the XP machine when you are not there, while you're at the Sun machine? You're pretty much not going to be able to do that without establishing a connection from the XP machine first. All the ports inbound to the XP box are likely blocked, or possibly not forwarded depending on how the firewall is set up.

If you can simply go to the XP machine and transfer the files at a later time, then you can just ssh to the Sun box using a Windows client, or ftp to the sun box if they're running ftp.

I'm not sure of any sort of service you could run that you could start on the XP machine, open a connection to the sun box, then go to the sun box and transfer files through the open connection.

 

[Soybomb]

If they can't connect directly use a third party. Tar everything up and upload it to a friends server or something like a geocities account, then login and download it from your home computer.

If the ssh system allows key logins only, I'd use putty keygen to make a key in windows, post the public key on a webpage, then copy and paste it or download it into $home/.ssh/authorized_keys on the sun system. Then login with winscp2 or whatever and transfer direct.

 

[Need4Speed]

you could use an ssh tunnel established from the winxp box to the sun box

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Just find a 3rd party FTP server to use as a "middle-man" machine.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Too bad he hasn't come back. 🙂 I'm assuming that he wants to be sitting at the Sun box and transfer files to the XP machine without having to actually be there to run anything on the XP box to initiate a retrieval.

Need4Speed: if he set up an ssh tunnel, I assume he'd need to configure the XP machine to share a folder over the tunnel (after first getting a tunnel set up)? And then when on the Sun box, some version of SAMBA would need to be running, and would have to access the shared folders on the XP machine via the tunnel? I figured there had to be some way to make an connection to the Sun box and then leave it open and configured to let the Sun box send files over it, but I couldn't think of how, don't know enough about ssh. It wouldn't have occurred to me that he could tunnel Windows Networking that way.

Or could he set the ssh tunnel up and run an ftp server on his XP machine, and on the Sun box force the ftp client to connect through the tunnel? I assume he'd need to have control over configuring the Sun box to redirect the port though.