Hi Jason, On Jan 14, 6:51 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to set up a sage notebook for my class to use. At the AMS > meetings, William mentioned that the easiest way to do this was to use > the vmware appliance to run the notebook (even if I plan to run the > appliance under linux). I presume the reasons have to do with security. > I have the vmware appliance running now, so the initial setup is all > good. However, the address is a 192.168.x.x address, which I presume is > not visible outside of my network. Is there a way to get the sage > vmware appliance visible to the world so students could use it from > anywhere? When I installed vmware, I just used the defaults everywhere. > Should I have chosen something different when answering questions > about the networking?
You need to set up bridged networking instead of NAT. > Are there any security issues I should be aware of? I don't care if the > vmware image gets messed up---I assume I can just reset it. I can back > up my notebook worksheets so I don't lose work. I assume that people > escaping the vmware appliance and getting into my computer is a > non-issue; is that correct? It is theoretically possible, but the skill set needed to do that would make you want to turn off your computer and hide it somewhere in a shielded room, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. > In return for answers, I'll write an entry in the FAQ or a new page in > the wiki :). Nice. John Voight is running a bunch of VMWare images on top of Windows with DSage, so he might have some input on the setup if it goes beyond enabling bridged networking. > Thanks, > > Jason Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
