On Sun, 18 May 2008 14:41:16 -0700, William Hammond wrote:
I have set up a couple of 10.3 systems with Remote Administration enabled, and I believe all necessary ports are open through the Firewall. VNC is also enabled.
These are behind a router, DynDNS redirects the Public IP Address.
There seems to be a plethora of Clients, The Support side client will be Windows XP.
Question: What is the simplest, or most efficient Windows Client for providing Remote Administration on the OpenSuSE box...?
Do I really need cygwin, putty, etc..?
Well, if you're just using VNC, then all you need is a VNC client. That said, from your description, you also need to forward the appropriate ports through your firewall. Given the security (or lack thereof) inherent in VNC, you probably want to tunnel over SSH (this is what I do) rather than open the VNC port directly onto the 'net. As I don't use Windows clients, I couldn't tell you which software would do this - I believe putty will forward ports over SSH. The way I'm configured for my systems at home (for when I'm in the office) is I allow myself to ssh through my firewall using RSA authentication only (no passwords used - just an RSA public key/private key pair). Default configuration forwards 5910 to the target machine's 5900. When connecting with VNC, I connect to 'localhost:10', which redirects over SSH using the port fowrarding configuration to the remote system with VNC running on it. I also have openssh configured to compress the stream, so I get some performance increase as a result. HTH. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org