Peter Sutter wrote:
On Sunday 19 February 2006 08:58, Anders Johansson wrote:
Peter Sutter wrote:
either subnet available to the other. In each subnet is a SuSE Linux V9.2 machine as a file server. There are only 10 users in one subnet and 3 in the other. By the way, I forgot to mention, if you only have very limited resources that you want to share (for example you only want the file server shared) then you might want to look at an even simpler solution: ssh tunnels. It will provide remote access which is secure and very easy to set up, and you could set it up on the internal server
Thanks Anders,
As I thought, routers would be the easiest and most transparent solution.
Yes, there is very limited traffic between the two networks, mainly printers and files; so ssh tunneling would be a possibility.
There are however still a couple of Win98 and WinXP machines around which need access through the tunnel too; would an ssh tunnel work for these? And what software would I need for the windows machines? Will putty do?
You don't need special software for the clients, you can set up the tunnel between the two suse boxes, provided you can ssh between them. Something like ssh -L 1000:remoteIP:2000 user@ip will cause any local client who accesses port 1000 on your local machine to be talking to the remoteIP machine at port 2000 instead, and he won't know the difference. For all the local client is concerned, he's talking to a local machine. ssh on suse does all the magic