Remote Access- Behind college firewall

AdmnPower

AdmnPower

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I'm trying to figure out if there is a program out there somewhere that will allow me to essentially run an FTP server without configuring a firewall to forward the ports that I need. I know of a program / service for media streaming called Orb. It comes pretty close to doing what I want except that it only supports three users. I'd like users to be able to access files via a web browser rather than having to use some sort of client program. The ability to stream media from my server (like orb does) would be nice. Is there a way to get an FTP server to work in such a situation? Is there some other program that is an alternative to FTP that would do what I need it to do?
 
what you need is something that uses a port that is already being forwarded to you.
for instant port 80 for http is already being forwarded.

my guess is you could set up an webserver program.
i know how to use iis in windows server 2003 but not in xp
you could try iis (i don't know if it even will work on xp though)
if that won't work try apache or some other web-server program.
 
well ok then, it's not that hard.
make sure you install iis. after that just right click the folder you want to be shared.
go to the tab "web sharing" and share the folder (set some options to if you like)

now for the tricky part (which i don't completely remember) you need a dns forward zone for this "website" to work. just name it (for example: www.mysharedfiles.lan) notice the ".lan" extension. Don't use ".com" or something else well known as you don't have the right for this domain.
Now if i'm correct you can access the www.mysharedfiles.lan (through internet explorer) and then you will see a simple structure of the folder you shared.

The only problem is i forgot how you can access these from the outside world. I've made a couple of these things but i especially didn't want them to be accessed from outside the network. But i do know that this communication is going through port 80. So that won't be a problem.
 
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