Whoa there, Roy, not so fast! Ok, she has a dial up connection and so do I, and we both have only a single telephone line in our respective houses - how do I go about making a direct connection to her machine? I've had various suggestions from people here at work, such as getting her to send me an email while both machines are online, so I can find out her dynamic ip address, and then telneting into her machine using that address... I guess ssh need something similar to work? I don't care about netscape being dog slow (what's new?), I just need to see what she's done to her mail folders and some other files on her KDE desktop. I'm hoping to log in as her (would that be possible, if she already has an xsession running?) and do some stuff, including add some stuff to her menu and panel bar etc. Anyhow, any help, howtos, or pointers where to start the learning process will be very much appreciated! k. On Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:23 PM, Roy G. Culley [SMTP:tgdcuro1@gd2 .swissptt.ch] wrote:
Hi Kester,
ssh is what you want. If you have a slowish connection then turn on compression. It handles X forwarding by default and everything is encrypted. You can transfer files using scp which comes with ssh. You will need to have the sshd daemon running on your mothers machine. I find most X client performance is acceptible on a 64k isdn line. Just don't try and run netscape as it is dog slow this way.
Regards, Roy
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Kester Clegg writes:
Whoa there, Roy, not so fast! Ok, she has a dial up connection and so do I, and we both have only a single telephone line in our respective houses - how do I go about making a direct connection to her machine? I've had various suggestions from people here at work, such as getting her to send me an email while both machines are online, so I can find out her dynamic ip address, and then telneting into her machine using that address...
This should be easy as pie. She could have a ppp daemon running on her machine set to auto-answer, then you use you favorite dialer 'kppp' to log on as a normal user on her machine. For exporting X over the connection you could use dxpc which compresses the data coming over the connection and greatly enhances your X response, or ssh which also supports compression but requires her to setup an ssh server. PPP stands for point-to-point protocol and works great over serial connections. Do a: man pppd man dxpc
I guess ssh need something similar to work?
I don't care about netscape being dog slow (what's new?), I just need to see what she's done to her mail folders and some other files on her KDE desktop. I'm hoping to log in as her (would that be possible, if she already has an xsession running?) and do some stuff, including add some stuff to her menu and panel bar etc.
Anyhow, any help, howtos, or pointers where to start the learning process will be very much appreciated! k.
On Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:23 PM, Roy G. Culley [SMTP:tgdcuro1@gd2 .swissptt.ch] wrote:
Hi Kester,
ssh is what you want. If you have a slowish connection then turn on compression. It handles X forwarding by default and everything is encrypted. You can transfer files using scp which comes with ssh. You will need to have the sshd daemon running on your mothers machine. I find most X client performance is acceptible on a 64k isdn line. Just don't try and run netscape as it is dog slow this way.
Regards, Roy
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