Help - Webmin External Access?

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#1 Wed, 04/19/2006 - 10:08

AdamStewart

Help - Webmin External Access?

Is there any way to access Webmin and Usermin from an external Souce, I mean not within my network.

I can't seems to access it from anywhere else except from within my local Network.

I've added the External IPS to IP Access Control but that did nothing.

Tried both with SSL enabled and Disabled, no change.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

#2 Wed, 04/19/2006 - 20:43

Joe

Hey Adam,

It is world-accessible by default, but there might be a firewall on the system (or elsewhere) preventing access.

The necessary iptables rules on the system itself could be:

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 10000 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 20000 -j ACCEPT

Note that I usually allow all high ports in my firewalls...but I know many default firewalls don't do so. You'll also need the ESTABLISHED,RELATED rule that most firewalls include.

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#3 Wed, 04/19/2006 - 22:04

AdamStewart

Hi Joe, thanks for responding.

The only firewall enabled is the BSD Firewall within Webmin, no other 3rd party firewall software is running.

I have these 2 rules set up:
12316 Allow If protocol is TCP and optional destination ports are 10000
12317 Allow If protocol is TCP and optional destination ports are 20000

That seems right but still no luck..
Hmmm, I dont really follow this:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 10000 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 20000 -j ACCEPT

#4 Thu, 04/20/2006 - 16:03

Joe

Hey Adam,

I was assuming a Linux system. ;-)

You could check to be sure Webmin is listening on public addresses...maybe if you installed for ports or some other package source, it is configured to only listen on localhost (seems silly, but there are folks out there that get all crazy-eyed when they hear of a web-based GUI that allows root access and want to do everything possible to make it useless after install).

netstat can show you whats listening where, or you can look in the /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf file for the listen= directive.

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#5 Thu, 04/20/2006 - 16:42

AdamStewart

Hi Joe,

I'm so sorry to take up your time...I'm such a dummy! I didn't open the Ports on my Router!! DUUH....Thats usually the first thing I take care of but it totally slipped my mind.. I started looking to deep into the problem and thats probably why...haha.

Thanks for the quick replys thoughs!

Oh, Im Running OSX. :)

AdamS

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