[Gllug] Can I get this to work?

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Saturday 17 January 2004 14:41, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:15:34PM +0000, Adrian wrote:
> > However I can use the provided browser (which has some sort of proxy
> > connection - which I can guess at)
>
> What do you mean by "guess at"?  Can you not examine the settings of the
> browser?  What kind of browser is it, what is it running on and how do
> you get access to it?  That information is needed to give you a good
> answer.
>
It's IE 5.5 with all those settings locked down (ie not accessible to the 
user) - so it's guess at in terms of what my logs show.


> > Now, all I want to do is connect to my box at home and run kmail over
> > port forwarded X. I have an X server on the client side (cygwin). Can I
> > solve this? Asking for changes in the firewall configuration isn't an
> > option.
>
> If they have locked things down well enough, your only option may to be
> to find some way to provide the access you want through a web server.
>
> Note: you have to consider how much information you want to give about
> the network in your workplace.  If your employers discover that you are
> handing out inside information about the network structure (and with the
> aim of subverting it) then they may consider that a sackable offence.


I understand that, obviously. But my employers are not responsible for the 
firewall and I'm not trying to wreck or damage anything, just read my emails.
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