[Cialug] Remote Access

Kevin C. Smith kevin at linuxsmith.com
Tue Aug 8 17:58:36 CDT 2006


Check out
http://www.nomachine.com/

I use it and it works great, and also if you set it to always use
encryption it will connect over ssh (port 22) always. Its fast and
should be secure. You will then only need to forward port 22 to
your linux box. There is a free (beer) server and clients for Windows,
Linux, etc.


> Yes
>
> David Stout wrote:
>> By default is ssh on port 22?
>>
>> */David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com>/* 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
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Kevin C. Smith



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