On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:35, John Pierce wrote:
> I am sure that his machine would give up the default gateway with
> ifconfig, but I would like to be able to talk him through the menus
> and options to change his firewall configuration in the modem.
No problem... I do this for my daughter all the time. The problem is
not the
dsl modem.... all you need to know to connect is the ip address of his
machine. The problem is the firewall on the linux box... and that's easy. Use
Yast and configure (Security) the firewall to allow ssh. Have him create a
sysadmin account (name it what you like) and once you ssh in then su to root
or whatever id you need. I have even piped X11 over the ssh connection and
used Yast on her machine ! (its slow, but it works)
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Kind regards,
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