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

On Sunday 18 May 2008 23:41:16 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.

The remote administration feature (VNC) is fine for a local LAN, but over the internet I believe the lack of performance in the VNC protocol will hurt you. The security can be handled by tunneling over ssh, but this will only make it even slower. I think if you have to have graphical administration over the internet, the only viable solution right now is NX Personally I do things with command line ssh, and the few times where I have to start something graphically, I use ssh -X and start it from the command line. It's also not very fast though Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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..?

Will, Unless you have blazing internet speed or the boxes are on your local LAN, I wouldn't waste time with the graphical environments, VNC, etc. Pumping all those pixels across a local network built on 100TX is sluggish, doing it over an internet connection is painful, even with twm as the windows manager. Further if one of your graphic remote interfaces hangs leaving locks on port 5901, etc.. , you will have to resort to ssh anyway. If you can work from the command line, then ssh vi "putty" is the only way to go. It handles ssl-certificate logins to give you secure passwordless logins to your servers. For Linux-Win file transfers, just grab your favorite ftp client. I have remote adminned a handful of servers for 7 years, and it you need to do it from windows, then putty is your friend. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org