hobbitfetch with Windows clients 🔗 link

Hi.  Is there a way to have the Hobbit server pulldata with hobbitfetch
from Windows Hobbit clients?  We have Windows and Solaris clients behind a
firewall and ports 1984, 22, 80, and 443  from the Hobbit server to the
clients are the only ones opened, nothing from the clients to the server.
Hobbitfetch is working perfectly for the Solaris clients, so I was hoping
to do the same thing for the Windows.  Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.


Regards,

Bryan Kennedy

I have lots of customer systems in that same situation, instead of using hobbitfecth, I use ssh tunnels and configure hobbit clients to connect to localhost.


on the hobbit server, you can setup something running from inittab that does:

ssh user at clienthost  -T -n -N -g -x -R1984:localhost:1984

So if the client connects to localhost:1984, it's connecting to the server's hobbit port.

 
Bryan A Kennedy wrote:

Thank you for the response.  The security group has put a wrinkle in this
setup since they won't allow any type of SSH tunneling.  I am unable to
open any ports from the clients to the server, and no SSH tunneling.  I
started looking at bbproxy.  Is it possible to have the main Hobbit sever
pulldata from the bbproxy server, instead of the bbproxy server pushing
data to the main hobbit server?  I thought to have the Windows clients send
data to a hobbit server in their dmz which would be a bbproxy server, then
have the main hobbit server pulldata from this bbproxy server.  These
Windows clients don't have Cygwin or SSH.  Any ideas?  Thank you for your
time.


Regards,

Bryan Kennedy


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I have lots of customer systems in that same situation, instead of using
hobbitfecth, I use ssh tunnels and configure hobbit clients to connect
to localhost.


on the hobbit server, you can setup something running from inittab that
does:

ssh user at clienthost  -T -n -N -g -x -R1984:localhost:1984

So if the client connects to localhost:1984, it's connecting to the
server's hobbit port.


Bryan A Kennedy wrote:

On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Bryan A Kennedy wrote:

My collegue recompiled bbwin so it can send user msg.  What about recompiling 
bbwin so it dumps the text in a file instead of sending it to the hobbit 
server.  Then you can write a script that runs on the hobbit server that 
collects this file (using samba - ssh - ftp - sftp - http) and feed the info 
to the hobbit server.
Just a wild idea .....


Stef