On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 09:13 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 05:40, Andy Pieters wrote: > > > > My Father lives 1.500 km away (1000 miles) and If only he would have Linux, I > > could just ssh in and arrange everything. > > > > I like heard of Remote Assistance on windows xp but since I don't have any > > windows, is anyone aware of a Linux Client that can interface with that? > > Note that vnc by itself is not secure. It does not provide an encrypted > connection so any passwords and data sent over it are in the clear. > > I have used ssh to tunnel vnc but only between two linux systems. It > should be possible to do something similar with windows. Would have to > look at putty to see if it can listen for incoming ssh connections and > setup the remote end of the tunnel for this. Again I have used putty to > setup ssh tunnels from windows systems to linux systems but not the > other direction. > > The other option would be to install cygwin on the windows box. Then > you should be able to setup an encrypted tunnel using ssh with that. > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx Openssh is pretty easy to setup with cygwin. I have been using that to pull rsync backups from a Windows XP Pro box. -- Travis Fraser <travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
