Hi, I am running suse 10 and I am looking for a good vpn solution. What I want to do, is to run suse at home with a vpn client, and then remotely connect (remote desktop) to my computer at the office (also running suse). I wonder if someone has good experience with this? Thanks in advance, Rohnny
Rohnny Moland wrote:
Hi,
I am running suse 10 and I am looking for a good vpn solution. What I want to do, is to run suse at home with a vpn client, and then remotely connect (remote desktop) to my computer at the office (also running suse).
I wonder if someone has good experience with this? SSH is a good solution. You can port forward to get VNC or remote desktop working. I think you can also use NX over SSH but i've never done that. The connection using the VNC srever in xinetd works faster with less delay than does remote desktop.
Hope this helps. Jim F
Rohnny Moland wrote:
I am running suse 10 and I am looking for a good vpn solution. What I want to do, is to run suse at home with a vpn client, and then remotely connect (remote desktop) to my computer at the office (also running suse). I wonder if someone has good experience with this?
If you really need a VPN, openvpn works very well. If you just want remote access, "ssh -X" is all you really need. /Per Jessen, Zürich
Anyone ever played with SSHFS? I just read an article about it and it
sounded interesting.
Michael
On 5/22/06, Per Jessen
Rohnny Moland wrote:
I am running suse 10 and I am looking for a good vpn solution. What I want to do, is to run suse at home with a vpn client, and then remotely connect (remote desktop) to my computer at the office (also running suse). I wonder if someone has good experience with this?
If you really need a VPN, openvpn works very well. If you just want remote access, "ssh -X" is all you really need.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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On 5/22/06, James Knott
Michael Stempf wrote:
Anyone ever played with SSHFS? I just read an article about it and it sounded interesting.
How does it compare with the fish protocol used in KDE?
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Linux Journal has an article on SSHFS in the current issue. I've only skimmed it, but does look interesting. Allows for mounting shares like nfs or samba. You need an account to access it online or the current print version.
On 5/22/06, Per Jessen
Rohnny Moland wrote:
I am running suse 10 and I am looking for a good vpn solution. What I want to do, is to run suse at home with a vpn client, and then remotely connect (remote desktop) to my computer at the office (also running suse). I wonder if someone has good experience with this?
If you really need a VPN, openvpn works very well. If you just want remote access, "ssh -X" is all you really need.
Hi Per and thanks for the reply. I find ssh -X to be too slow. Now I am using GVC vpn client with XP at home/office + remote desktop. How is the speed for the remote desktop in kde? (never played with that). I cannot switch over to suse at office before I can fix this vpn stuff. I'll try openvpn. Thanks, Rohnny
Rohnny Moland wrote:
Hi Per and thanks for the reply. I find ssh -X to be too slow. Now I am using GVC vpn client with XP at home/office + remote desktop. How is the speed for the remote desktop in kde? (never played with that).
To be honest, I have no idea. I only use "ssh -X" internally, over 100Mbit ethernet - externally the performance and speed would be entirely dependent on your connection. (both ends). /Per Jessen, Zürich
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 02:11, Rohnny Moland wrote:
Hi Per and thanks for the reply. I find ssh -X to be too slow. Now I am using GVC vpn client with XP at home/office + remote desktop. How is the speed for the remote desktop in kde? (never played with that). I cannot switch over to suse at office before I can fix this vpn stuff. I'll try openvpn.
I use openvpn between a number of sites. It works reliably and I highly recommend you giving it a go. I have used VNC and NX to connect to a remote desktops. VNC operates like a dog compared with NX. There is practically no difference between running KDE remotely via NX and that of working on a local desktop. It is well worth the effort in getting NX working. -- Regards, Graham Smith
Rohnny Moland wrote:
Hi Per and thanks for the reply. I find ssh -X to be too slow. Now I am using GVC vpn client with XP at home/office + remote desktop. How is the speed for the remote desktop in kde? (never played with that). I cannot switch over to suse at office before I can fix this vpn stuff. I'll try openvpn.
If you're stuck on Windows in the office, you can still run OpenVPN and use Xming for the remote X desktop.
Rohnny Moland wrote:
Hi,
I am running suse 10 and I am looking for a good vpn solution. What I want to do, is to run suse at home with a vpn client, and then remotely connect (remote desktop) to my computer at the office (also running suse).
I wonder if someone has good experience with this?
SUSE comes with OpenVPN, which works well. There are even Windows, Unix and Mac versions available.
On Monday 22 May 2006 14:22, Rohnny Moland wrote:
Hi,
I am running suse 10 and I am looking for a good vpn solution. What I want to do, is to run suse at home with a vpn client, and then remotely connect (remote desktop) to my computer at the office (also running suse).
I wonder if someone has good experience with this?
Thanks in advance, Rohnny
Rohnny: I use remote via internet extensively... But a lot of Ideas are get mixed up in this thread here... so I'll just do a quick rundown: Rdesktop on linux works better than RDP on XP. SSH -X is ssssllllooooowwww. vnc over ssh is faster. Nx over ssh is fastest. What do you really need/want.... if all you need is to remote into a Linux machine then Nx and ssh is your best bet. (If the remote is SUSE I give you setup guides) (Or you may decide to go with VNC over ssh to avoid maintenance of nx). If you also need access to RemoteDesktop on window machines, you could use RDesktop over SSH. If you want to work on your local machine as if it was connected to your office network, you need a VPN. (a VPN uses more traffic than tunnels) Pick your poison, and we'll help you set it up... Jerry
Hi Jerry,
On 5/24/06, Jerry Westrick
Rohnny:
I use remote via internet extensively...
But a lot of Ideas are get mixed up in this thread here... so I'll just do a quick rundown:
Rdesktop on linux works better than RDP on XP.
SSH -X is ssssllllooooowwww. vnc over ssh is faster. Nx over ssh is fastest.
What do you really need/want....
Some background info. We now have a vpn solution with GVC, and I am running XP at home/office with remote desktop. So I can use the same development enviroment at home/office. I want to switch over to SuSE (home/office), but I want to know there is a solution that is fast enough to work with (ssh -X isnt). So (maybe) I would prefer to use vnc over ssh _if_ that is fast enough to work with (I dont know anything about nx). And I want to work with the remote suse as it was local.
if all you need is to remote into a Linux machine then Nx and ssh is your best bet. (If the remote is SUSE I give you setup guides)
I am going to install SuSE at office, but I am not there yet. Rohnny
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 16:54, Rohnny Moland wrote:
What do you really need/want....
Some background info. We now have a vpn solution with GVC, and I am running XP at home/office with remote desktop. So I can use the same development enviroment at home/office. I want to switch over to SuSE (home/office), but I want to know there is a solution that is fast enough to work with (ssh -X isnt). So (maybe) I would prefer to use vnc over ssh _if_ that is fast enough to work with (I dont know anything about nx). And I want to work with the remote suse as it was local.
if all you need is to remote into a Linux machine then Nx and ssh is your best bet. (If the remote is SUSE I give you setup guides)
I am going to install SuSE at office, but I am not there yet.
Rohnny
Okay, what you want is Nx over SSH, it is as fast or faster than Rdesktop/RDP. Hmm, the only difference is that with Winodws/RDP only one user on the machine at a time (well not really but....), and with NX you are limited only by machine resources.... Tell me what version of SUSE are you installing, and I'll send you the setup howto's to get it done... BTW. if you already got a vpn up and running you can use that for VNC and Nx as well. It don't have to be SSH 8-) Jerry
On Wednesday, May 24 2006 10:08, Jerry Westrick wrote:
Tell me what version of SUSE are you installing, and I'll send you the setup howto's to get it done...
We are running 10.0 on several servers, along with the NX packages which ship with 10.0 (not the NoMachine packages), but we can't get the clients to connect. We are testing a 10.1 server now, but, again, we can't get clients to connect. SSH works on all the servers (otherwise we would not be able to administer the boxes), so we are baffled. HOW-TOs and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Sargon
On Thursday 25 May 2006 02:06, Sargon wrote:
On Wednesday, May 24 2006 10:08, Jerry Westrick wrote:
Tell me what version of SUSE are you installing, and I'll send you the setup howto's to get it done...
We are running 10.0 on several servers, along with the NX packages which ship with 10.0 (not the NoMachine packages), but we can't get the clients to connect. We are testing a 10.1 server now, but, again, we can't get clients to connect. SSH works on all the servers (otherwise we would not be able to administer the boxes), so we are baffled.
HOW-TOs and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Sargon
Download the nxclient from nomachine (its free) and that will work with SuSE 10.0 and should work with 10.1 (although I haven't tried it). The knx does not work as far as I can tell. -- Regards, Graham Smith
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On Wednesday, May 24 2006 10:08, Jerry Westrick wrote:
Tell me what version of SUSE are you installing, and I'll send you the setup howto's to get it done...
We are running 10.0 on several servers, along with the NX packages which ship with 10.0 (not the NoMachine packages), but we can't get the clients to connect. We are testing a 10.1 server now, but, again, we can't get clients to connect. SSH works on all the servers (otherwise we would not be able to administer the boxes), so we are baffled.
HOW-TOs and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Apr/2124.html Hope it helps, Dmitry
Thanks.
Sargon
Here it is But as usuall... the mailling list Messes it all up.... Therefore I've attached a pdf, which will be removed from the mail on the list.... For those interested it can be retrieved from: http://home.intergga.ch/Westrick/SSH_NxServer.pdf For those interested there is also another document there called: http://home.intergga.ch/Westrick/Using_SSH_tunnels_from_M$_Windows.pdf Which explains how to use Putty on windows to connect to linux machines... Have Fun.... Jerry SSH Configuration The following changes need to be made for SSH: User Group to control access Create Group “remotessh”, Add users that are allowed remote access to the group. In file /etc/ssh/sshd_config add the following lines to bottom of file: # # Westrick GmbH Configuration # Port 26 AllowGroups remotessh GatewayPorts yes X11DisplayOffset 50 X11Forwarding yes restart ssh server with: “rcsshd restart” In file /etc/ssh/ssh_config Add lines: ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes Then for each known host with alternate port add following lines before “Host *” line: Host jerry.westrick.com Port 26 Setup NxServer Install the nxserver software with yast. Execute following command in root-shell nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key Edit /etc/nxserver/node.conf: change port to 26 SSHD_PORT=26 Enable SSH Authentication ENABLE_SSH_AUTHENTICATION=”1” Add user nx to remotessh group! Download nxclient from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php . When connecting you need to specify 2 options: 1.General->Server->Port is 26. 2.Advanced->Network->Enable SSL encryption of all traffic is enabled. Open port 26 in Firewall!
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