[Cialug] Remote Access

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

What type of access do you need? A terminal window, or a full X session, 
or something else? For just a terminal window, i'd recommend 
downloading PuTTY (Google for "putty" and it should be in the first 2 
hits) and using it to SSH to your Linux box. You'll need to make sure 
your Linux box has a routable IP, or forward the SSH port (TCP/22) from 
a routable IP to the Linux box.

X is a bit more complicated; i've never needed to go from MS Windows to 
X Windows. There are projects such as Cygwin that will let you set up 
an X server on Windows and then from there you'd be able to connect to 
the Linux box and run applications. A possibly easier solution would be 
to run VNC on the Linux box and then connect from Windows with a VNC 
viewer. I've done that before, though with Linux or OS X as the client 
rather than Windows. It gives you a full desktop, and is much more 
responsive than X over SSH. To use VNC to go from one Linux box to 
another, get SSH working, then on the server do "vncserver :2 -geometry 
1024x768 -depth 8" and on the client "vncviewer -via <server hostname> 
localhost:1". When done you can stop the server with "vncserver 
-kill :1" on the server. I would think that using Windows as the client 
would be similar, though the client command may differ slightly.

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 08:01, David Stout wrote:
>I would like to access my Linux box from work. At home I am running
> SuSe 10.1 with a linksys router. At work I am on Win XP Pro. What is
> the best way to accomplish this. Do I need to forward any ports?
>
>David Stout
>Systems Programmer
>Regency Homes
>
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