<DIV>I am using Mediacom at home. I can RDP from win at work to win at home.</DIV> <DIV>I have not tried ssh at home. From work I am using putty and then for the protocol I am selecting SSH. When I do SSH it say connection refused.<BR><BR><B><I>"Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@DRAKE.EDU></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Please don't use telnet. It is good as a diagnostic tool (telnetting to <BR>port 80 of a web server, or 25 of an SMTP server), but not for logins. <BR>Well, it is OK for logins if your intention is to let the world know <BR>your password. That's generally not recommended, however.<BR><BR>This question is on the order of "Is it plugged in?", so please don't be <BR>offended if it seems silly...<BR>Is SSH actually running on the Linux box? Can you connect to the Linux <BR>box with SSH from another machine at home?<BR><BR>The next possibility: What ISP are you
using? Do they block inbound SSH?<BR><BR>On Wednesday 09 August 2006 08:35, David Stout wrote:<BR>>Sorry to keep beating this thread to death but I am still have<BR>> trouble.<BR>><BR>> I have port 19-23 forwarded on my router. I went to dyndns and set<BR>> up a dns. I can ping the ip remotely (from work) but when I try to do<BR>> a TELNET session I get a connect failed message. I also have putty<BR>> installed on my win box at work and when I try ssh or telnet from the<BR>> win box I get Unable to open connection: connect(); unknown error.<BR>><BR>>"Daniel A. Ramaley" <DANIEL.RAMALEY@DRAKE.EDU>wrote:<BR>> What type of access do you need? A terminal window, or a full X<BR>> session, 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)<BR>> from a routable IP to the Linux box.<BR>><BR>>X is a bit more complicated; i've never needed to go from MS Windows<BR>> to X Windows. There are projects such as Cygwin that will let you set<BR>> up an X server on Windows and then from there you'd be able to<BR>> connect to the Linux box and run applications. A possibly easier<BR>> solution would be to run VNC on the Linux box and then connect from<BR>> Windows with a VNC viewer. I've done that before, though with Linux<BR>> or OS X as the client rather than Windows. It gives you a full<BR>> desktop, and is much more responsive than X over SSH. To use VNC to<BR>> go from one Linux box to another, get SSH working, then on the server<BR>> do "vncserver :2 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 8" and on the client<BR>> "vncviewer -via<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<BR>> client would be similar, though the client command may differ<BR>> 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
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