No my machine does not have a public ip. So If I forward port 22 on my router then install VNC viewer on the win x box Do I also need VNC Server installed on the SuSe 10.1 box or does it come installed?<BR><BR><B><I>"Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@DRAKE.EDU></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">What type of access do you need? A terminal window, or a full X session, <BR>or something else? For just a terminal window, i'd recommend <BR>downloading PuTTY (Google for "putty" and it should be in the first 2 <BR>hits) and using it to SSH to your Linux box. You'll need to make sure <BR>your Linux box has a routable IP, or forward the SSH port (TCP/22) from <BR>a routable IP to the Linux box.<BR><BR>X is a bit more complicated; i've never needed to go from MS Windows to <BR>X Windows. There are projects such as Cygwin that will let you set up <BR>an X server on Windows and then from there
you'd be able to connect to <BR>the Linux box and run applications. A possibly easier solution would be <BR>to run VNC on the Linux box and then connect from Windows with a VNC <BR>viewer. I've done that before, though with Linux or OS X as the client <BR>rather than Windows. It gives you a full desktop, and is much more <BR>responsive than X over SSH. To use VNC to go from one Linux box to <BR>another, get SSH working, then on the server do "vncserver :2 -geometry <BR>1024x768 -depth 8" and on the client "vncviewer -via <SERVER hostname><BR>localhost:1". When done you can stop the server with "vncserver <BR>-kill :1" on the server. I would think that using Windows as the client <BR>would be similar, though the client command may differ slightly.<BR><BR>On Tuesday 08 August 2006 08:01, David Stout wrote:<BR>>I would like to access my Linux box from work. At home I am running<BR>> SuSe 10.1 with a linksys router. At work I am on Win XP Pro. What is<BR>> the best
way to accomplish this. Do I need to forward any ports?<BR>><BR>>David Stout<BR>>Systems Programmer<BR>>Regency Homes<BR>><BR>>---------------------------------<BR>>Do you Yahoo!?<BR>> Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.<BR><BR>-- <BR>------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University<BR>Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave<BR>+1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Cialug mailing list<BR>Cialug@cialug.org<BR>http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>David Stout<br>Systems Programmer<br>Regency Homes<p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com