Port Forwarding

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> Thanks, we will try port 22 - as he is using XP is there a free 
> version of ssh he can get or do you know if it comes with his 
> software?

Try "PuTTY" (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)

> As the sun has set I'm sure he's not in his apartment, something 
> about college and night time and girls.

For the RealVNC, make sure the client he gets supports ssh tunneling.

> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> 
>>Brad,
>>   Use port 22 and have him use ssh. You run sshd on your machine. He
>>jsut does an ssh into your IP address. You need to allow X forwarding.
>>
>>   When you do it this way RealVNC can be tunneled through ssh which
>>is more secure and happens on a known port. More info here:
>>
>>http://rhil.net/docs/ssh_setup.html
>>
>>- Mark
>>
>>On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:43:36 -0600 (MDT), brad.mugleston at comcast.net
>><brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to get my son to access my home computer from school.
>>>I'm using a Linksys router and while he can ping the cable modem
>>>the port forwarding doesn't seem to be working.
>>>
>>>I've look at the instructions and the only thing I can see that I
>>>may not be doing right is the Ext. Port Range.  What range should
>>>I be putting in?  I am not seting up a Web Server (port 80) or an
>>>FTP server (port 21) I just want to give him access to my
>>>computer so he can get files from my machine to his (not
>>>necessarly FTP).  We are using RealVNC to connect between the two
>>>machines.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>--
>>>Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
>>>
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