Edward wrote:
However, with a few customers more than 1.5 hours drive away, I need to look at remote administration. Especially for simply adding few users to a spamassassin white list or the like, which really only are 10 minute jobs.
So, I was thinking about setting up dyndns or no-ip addresses for these servers, then opening up the firewall for either ssh or VPN. None of my customers have a static internet address.
I've used ssh locally before, and that is really simple to set up, but because of the open hole I'll be creating my question is really: Should I be learning about setting up VPN tunnels into their systems instead?
i do these jobs with:
dyndns_provider firewall:not_22 --> ssh-server:22 ssh, sftp, scp
works great
if you need X11Forwarding, this can be really slow, escpecially rdesktop.
the _few_ situations i need rdesktop/w2k-terminal-server Xnest,... VNC, timbuktu, pcanywhere, ...
i forward the needed port(s) on the firewall to the real-server for the short-time and close it afterwards,
you will see great perfomance-differences.
-- shrek-m
