From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ERIxy-0001ue-Oz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:35:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9H0Wb4b014554; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:32:37 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9H0Ssqt000326 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:28:55 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3997118034 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:30:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22695-10-2 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:30:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1691A18031 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:30:50 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:32:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <49bf44f10510160959n7407c97bj882784795fa2a9e8@mail.gmail.com> <200510161313.34724.john@jolet.net> <4352BBA8.9090707@djnauk.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4352BBA8.9090707@djnauk.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510161932.05434.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: ae563bb3-7b33-49c1-b0c7-1b2d0a170fc1 X-Archives-Hash: db93fd5c8b67d657e4b20cefaf37ae76 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 username@hostname.tld > # 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 -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list