''own-cloud''

Why run a home server

and what to do with it?

A homeserver

Raspberry Pi

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Going Online...

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...Through a tunnel

https:// my-server . pagekite . me

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Basic Access

In your ~/.ssh/config:

Host *.pagekite.me
  CheckHostIP no
  ProxyCommand /bin/nc ↩
    -X connect -x %h:443 %h %p

Web Access

Seafile

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Sync/Share

Calendars, contacts, to-dos.

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E.g. Kolab

But How About...

...accessing my home PC's data?

(And getting my documents and media files?)

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You"re almost there

What you need:

At least one system that you can
reach from afar.
"OpenSSH-Server" running on
the destination system.

✓

(✓)

Accessing the Home PC...

...through a tunnel.

Opening the tunnel:

ssh -L 3000:home-pc.fritz.box:22 my-server.pagekite.me

And then using it in another shell:

ssh localhost:3000

""Secure Shell Tunneling""

ssh ↩
  -L ↩                   <-- Start secure shell tunneling.
  3000: ↩                <-- Port on localhost to use.
  home-pc.fritz.box ↩    <-- Destination system as seen trough the tunnel.
  :22 ↩                  <-- Port on the destination to reach.
   ↩
  my-server.pagekite.me  <-- Gateway.

ssh localhost:3000       <-- Our local Port 3000 now forwards our
                             SSH-request to our tunnel system which
                             then forwards it to port 22 of our
                             destination system.

But What If...

...I want to administrate my router
(which offers a web front-end)?

Same technique!
Go figure ; - )