On Sunday 16 October 2005 15:44, Jonathan Wright wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > >>Basically I have a network back home with a couple Gentoo systems > >>connected and I'd like to have ssh (and maybe vnc) access to them from > >>my Gentoo laptop no matter where I am. What do you think? > > > > if you just need ssh, you don't need a vpn, just a port forward on your > > router. for vnc, I'd use openvpn. > > Why do though all the hassle of setting up a VPN when you can use SSH to > provide a secure tunnel into the network and use that instead? Works > fine for me. > > # ssh -L5900:hostname:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # vncviewer localhost:0 Okay, now show me the instance where you want box->internet->box->vnc server. If you set up openvpn on your ssh server, you easily can tunnel across it. Doing that with ssh would add another tunnel. Takes 5 minutes to set up. > > -- > Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk > ~ www.djnauk.co.uk > -- > 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz > up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 1.68, 0.87, 0.33 > -- > "People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a > movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you > play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay." > > ~ Perry King
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