Horst Herb wrote: > You simply cannot make a network operating system out of something that was > always designed primarily with a single desktop user in mind. But nowadays > mobile information society needs networking operating systems and distributed > services more than ever. > The absence of secure tunneling in the Windows operating system is truly bizarre and, like the lack of tabs in all but the most recent versions of Internet Explorer, I cannot understand out why MS never bothered.
VPNs are cute but not what most people are really after (http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html). If you're intent on running Windows only, the preferred solution these days is just to install ssh under cygwin (http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/). However, Michael uses linux so he should just hook his tunnel into his e-smith firewall and attach to his Windows XP box from there using the remote desktop protocol. This will allow local client printing which is what he was after in the first place. David P.S. Michael, if you want a more detailed howto I can cobble one together from the one on the old e-smith site. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
