PuTTY from behind a firewall/proxy

[iamlb]

hello, i am having a firewall problem, i have been trying and tryin to telnet and SSH out of my school computers to my shell acct. well, i havnt been successful, at all, and PuTTY have a proxy feature, but whenever i run it with the correct proxy, (http://software.tps.org/proxy.pac uses BESS systems, if no one knows what that is is a proxy/firewall, that blocks websites and basically rules our lives here, although i can get around it in web browsing, i cant do it with SSH or telnet) and it gives me the error "Proxy error: unable to resolve host" its set up for the proxy on port 80, and i can find nothing else wrong with the setup that i have, if anyone knows anything about this, please help me.

[Vin DSL]

Use WinSCP...

http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/

[jason]

Originally posted by Vin DSL
Use WinSCP...

Since SCP works over SSH it won't work if he can't get SSH working.

--Jason

[iamlb]

so, does anyone have any ideas? i found soething out since the last post, if you click the link in my last post (which should be the proxy server) you can dload a file, open it with notepad and its like a list of how the proxy IP and port is given depending on DNS addr, i have tried all th combinations that it gives for 10.32.0.0 (which is our DNS) if you have free time, please take a look see if you can figure anything, ill try WinSCP tomorrow, thanx for the link Vin

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by jason


Since SCP works over SSH it won't work if he can't get SSH working.

--Jason

WinSCP uses two decidedly different protocols, SFTP which is a subset of SSH and SCP. Unlike SCP, which requires a connection to the SSH server, you do not need access to shell to run SFTP.

The fly in the ointment is, I don't think you can use SFTP here, but they are always changing things around, so it's worth a try, don't you think?

[gerilya]

I wonder what exactly you need SSH for.
If it's couple of commands here or there, you can put a small script in some password-protected directory of your site, which will execute the commands you enter through the browser.

As a general rule, it's considered to be very insecure, but since access to control panel is not encrypted, that doesn't really matter.

[G.Bloke]

SFTP is enabled at Jag but it does use the same port as SSH (22) and you DO need shell access for SFTP to work.

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by G.Bloke
SFTP is enabled at Jag but it does use the same port as SSH (22) and you DO need shell access for SFTP to work.

SFTP works very simular to regular FTP. The main difference is that SFTP assumes your username is the same on both machines. Of course, this is highly unlikely, so 'they' are probably using SSH for auth. I dunno, I've never had any luck using it here.

Anyway, good luck on bypassing the security policy at your school, iamlb. These guys probably know more about that kind of stuff than I do..

[iamlb]

im trying to use SSH to access my shell acct at sdf.lonestar.org, i know it has absolutely nothing to do with this website, but i know people that use the forum and they tell me you guys can pretty much figure out anything, or point people in the right direction

[Vin DSL]

Flattery will get you everywhere!

This is the largest bastion of insecure white male webmasters on the Internet. Sometimes I think I'm the only normal person here...

[iamlb]

although i feel i will be smacked for this, what is the site for anyway?

[iamlb]

nvrmnd bout that last post, i figured it out, and thas pretty cool that a hosting system has its own forum, and Vin DSL, i tired WinSCP, and it didnt work, i cant configre a proxy with it, or at least i didnt figure out how to do it, thanx for the help tho