ssh newbie

[FishStickey]

Hey all,

I've been reading about ssh and it seems pretty cool. Am I right when I assume the following:

- I can setup an ssh-server on my gentoo-box at home and ssh into it using an ssh-client on my winXP-box at work. I can even use X and for example use Thunderbird to check my email.

Now if this assumption is right, I've got 2 questions:
1. Which server should I use?
2. What client should I use (for Windows XP!)?

Thanx in advance.

[aetius]

1) use the default openssh server provided with Gentoo. Far easier than anything else, and it's part of the base system.

2) use PuTTY for command-line access on Windows. There are number of other options but PuTTY works great, is open-source, and is freely downloadable.

Making X work on Windows is harder. You need X running on the Windows client in order to transfer the X display over. You can use Cygwin and run X on that, or there are a number of commercial X servers for Windows. Alternatively, you can try a program called VNC to get graphical displays from the Linux machine.

[FishStickey]

[jeremy whiting]

as far as I'm concerned there's only one ssh server to use and it's called openssh in portage. You can use it to log in from work, but it won't send your X windows through to work unless you tunnel a vnc through ssh (which many do to make vnc secure).

So you're going to need a vnc server at home as well, if you use gnome2.8 you're in luck because it comes with a great vnc server called vino that should allready be on your system. It's pretty nice because it's fast and it's very easy to set up. You just have to log in to your computer at home before you head off to work, then when you get to work, you log in with your username, and password and you're seeing the same X windows session that started at home.

Before gnome2.8 I tried with other vnc servers to do similar (connect to an allready open X session) with no luck. Admittedly I didn't try for very long since I was working at the time.

Also, to tunnel your vnc through ssh, you need to set up your ssh client (Putty or WinSSH are good) on the windows box to tunnel to port 5900 on your home box(127.0.0.1 looking from your home box). I usually set it up to forward local 5900 to home 5900 then you tell the vnc viewer at work to connect to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) which is forwarded through ssh to your home box. It'll ask for your username/password, and voila, linux screen on a windows box.

Technically you could skip the part about connecting through ssh and just tell the vnc viewer to connect to your home ip address, but the connection wont be encrypted that way.

[FishStickey]

[jeremy whiting]

vpn and vnc are different, not sure I remember what exactly vpn is, but I think it makes remote machines look like they're on the same lan or something like that.

you can get tightvnc as a server, and here's a forum thread about getting vnc working https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=72893

good luck to ya, hope it all works out. Oh, also one other thing to consider is to make sure you're ISP connection (Router, or DSLModem/Router) forward the right ports to your box at home. The easy way I do it is to set up DMZ hosting so it forwards all ports to my box. Or you can pick and choose which ports to forward if you want, or dmz isn't available on your router. You'll need at least the SSH port which is port 22.

[FishStickey]

[OdinsDream]

I also wrote a little thread about using VNC, you might find it useful.
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