[Cialug] Remote Access

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Yes. The "-via" switch to vncviewer takes care of that; earlier this 
morning i tested the commands that were included below and i only have 
the ssh port forwarded to my home machine, so it must have been going 
over ssh.

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 09:27, David Champion wrote:
>If you're using VNC over untrusted networks (i.e. the internet) you
>should tunnel it thru ssh - as it has no encryption built in - someone
>may be able to sniff your vnc password. Also, if your doing this, you
>only need to forward your ssh port thru the router.
>
>-dc
>
>Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>> 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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