William Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are three documents that detail setting up an SSH server on MS > Windows based machines.
I browsed them, but seeing that the files to download were .tar.gz files, I assumed he was really talking about doing stuff on unix. I see now after more careful reading that there is a windows gunzip (bzip2090b_win32.exe) and that these really are Windows files. I will endevor to try his suggestions. >>> You need an SSH server. PuTTY is just an SSH client. >> >> Ah ha, I think this is the key. After you said this, I went >> looking for >> a WinSSH server. I found one, OpenSSH for Windows, but it seems that >> this project stopped back on Nov 20. > > And the author points out that using Cygwin is an alternative. True, but he assumes that the reader knows what Cygwin is in the first place. I don't. For that matter, even after further reading, I still don't know (hey, I did say I was a newbie). >>> There are also other encrypted tunneling options available (Zebedee >>> comes to mind, along with full blown VPN). >> >> I did a google search on Zebedee, and found the main site for >> it. But I couldn't *really* tell what was involved in setting this up. > > There is a "Use with VNC" section in the Zebedee manual page. I'll look again. > When using VNC over the Internet tunneling is always a more secure > approach. True. >> b) if (a) is YES, then what's the best way to go about it - keeping >> in mind that we're talking about Win-Win? Some step-by-step getting >> started advice would be helpful here... > > You haven't explained much about the firewall you are talking about. > If you don't control the firewall you won't be able to get SSH > traffic to the Win2K machine either. You would need to open a port > on the firewall for SSH traffic. Do you control the firewall? I haven't said much about it because I don't control it (answering both questions at the same time). I know that there are very few ports open; but http, smtp, & ssh are amoung them. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
