[opensuse] Remote Administration Client
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..? -- 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..?
That depends on what you want to do. Putty is fine for ssh, then there's Xming for XDMCP and of course there's VNC. Your choice, depending on requirements. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
* William Hammond <tech@mbdsoft.com> [05-18-08 17:43]:
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..?
Yes, putty, but it is provided in the package I like. Google for "xming". Simple to set up and easy to use. I installed it on a usb stick and can plug it into any xpee or virsta box and access my home openSUSE box via ssh-putty-xming. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* William Hammond <tech@mbdsoft.com> [05-18-08 17:43]:
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..?
Yes, putty, but it is provided in the package I like. Google for "xming". Simple to set up and easy to use. I installed it on a usb stick and can plug it into any xpee or virsta box and access my home openSUSE box via ssh-putty-xming.
I know putty can be used on a USB stick, but Xming too? -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> [05-18-08 18:46]:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Yes, putty, but it is provided in the package I like. Google for "xming". Simple to set up and easy to use. I installed it on a usb stick and can plug it into any xpee or virsta box and access my home openSUSE box via ssh-putty-xming.
I know putty can be used on a USB stick, but Xming too?
Just install it (or unzip) onto a usb flash drive or a flash memory card and save the setup (access to your home computer) file on the flash chip. Plug the chip in and access xming from the flash chip. I've been using it to access my home box remotely for over a year :^). -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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* William Hammond <tech@mbdsoft.com> [05-18-08 17:43]:
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..?
Yes, putty, but it is provided in the package I like. Google for "xming". Simple to set up and easy to use. I installed it on a usb stick and can plug it into any xpee or virsta box and access my home openSUSE box via ssh-putty-xming.
Please elaborate on how-to get Putty to do the reverse/forward thing. I.e., how do you get Putty to (on a windooze box) to set up a reversed forwarded tunnel? On Linux, in a shell, I do: ssh -l vk -L 7777:sles10:3306 sles10 cat - - this opens up a tunnel that lets me access my MySQL server using localhost:7777 and so. How to do that using PuTTY on windoze? -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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* William Hammond <tech@mbdsoft.com> [05-18-08 17:43]:
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.
Yes, putty, but it is provided in the package I like. Google for "xming". Simple to set up and easy to use. I installed it on a usb stick and can plug it into any xpee or virsta box and access my home openSUSE box via ssh-putty-xming.
Please elaborate on how-to get Putty to do the reverse/forward thing. I.e., how do you get Putty to (on a windooze box) to set up a reversed forwarded tunnel?
On Linux, in a shell, I do:
ssh -l vk -L 7777:sles10:3306 sles10 cat -
- this opens up a tunnel that lets me access my MySQL server using localhost:7777 and so. How to do that using PuTTY on windoze?
In putty left menu-window goto SSH, Tunnels. Fill in Source port (in your above case 7777) and Destination (sles10:3306) and click Add. If you want to save settings, in left menu go back to Settings, give your connection a name and save. Now you can connect to MySQL on localhost:7777
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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
On Sunday 18 May 2008 11:05:08 pm Anders Johansson wrote:
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
Remote access via FreeNX ====================== Will be setup to allow access locally and via Internet (via ssh tunneling) Installation -------------- Install FreeNx with yast2 Post Installation (as root) -------------------------------- nxsetup –install –setup-nomachine-key Enable ssh authentication and Int'l keyboard... --------------------------------------------------------- edit /etc/nxserver/node.conf ENABLE_SSH_AUTHENTICATION='1' AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_X="-xkbdir /usr/share/X11/xkb" Notes -------- The Int'l keyboard does not work for the root user.... Jerry -- 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
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