Raymond Norton wrote: > I tried out gotomypc.com this weekend and found it to be pretty cool. The > desktop interaction was pretty responsive, and I liked the file transfer > feature. For those that don't know how it works, you install a client on the > pc you want to control. This client talks to a gotomypc server. You connect > to the remote pc via a web browser which connects to the same gotomypc > server. This creates a connection you can work from. so you are trusting a third party with remote access to your computers? ... think about that one for a second. > I have always wanted to set something up like this for my customers that I > service. I have been able to access some workstations by port forwarding tcp > 5900 to the private IP of the workstation that I need to access. If the > customer has Terminal Server I access it and use VNC from there to the local > workstations. This works fine if you can port forward or Nat one to one, but > I cannot connect to ISP customers using one to many Nat. The gotomypc client > software initiates the outbound connection, so this problem is overcome when > using there services. Since I am unwilling to spend $14.95 a month per PC, > I was wondering if there is a project or solution out there that would be > similar ? introducing: OpenSSH using ssh keys you can create secure tunnels that forward port $xxx on the remote server to port $yyy on the local box. Then you can have VNC/rdesktop/TS listening on the local interface and be able to connect to it securely from the comfort of your own couch. here is an example of single tunnel that lets ssh traffic back into the box behind the firewall ssh -2 -R 10022:localhost:22 nassarmu at dom.redconcepts.net -- Munir Nassar _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list