I dont know if this is the best place to post this but any way, my problem is: i have a computer at university behind a firewall that does not allow incoming(ftp) connections. i want to be able to access files on this computer @ home. what i have been doing is telnetting on to one of the universitys unix machines(unix machine is on same side of firewall as my machine), i have then ftp''ed my files to the unix machine''s tmp directory and ftp''ed from my home machine to the tmp directory on the unix machine and downloaded what i want. is there a quicker/better way to do this?

If the UNIX machine is a webserver, create a public_html directory in your home directory and move your files there. Access them over the web. That''s all I can think of right now, other than talking to your school''s sysadmin (like I may soon be chatting with mine to ask for an increase in disk quota).