Re: [Fwd: Re: Login to home from work]

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

That leads me to this thought:  if you really want access to a GUI 
desktop on your home machine, and/or don't want to carry an Putty floppy 
with you...

What about installing (Tight)VNC on your Linux machine, and use its 
HTTP/Java capabilities to get to your machine from any 
Internet-connected machine that has a Java-capable browser?

The beauty of that is that that web page Kenneth proposes could then 
have an actual *link* to your X desktop!

That is perhaps not too secure, but you could always run apache-ssl, or 
apache + mod_ssl, with authentication, and use mod_proxy to forward 
requests to Xvnc.

Mind you, personally I'd rather just use Putty/SSH when possible, and I 
use DynDNS for the addressing.  I would think the above would be 
substantially slower - but it could help you out in a pinch.

Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote:
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>
> Subject:
> Re: Login to home from work
> From:
> Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <ken@fiona-victor.com>
> Date:
> 09 Sep 2002 19:39:17 +0200
> To:
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
>
>
> If your isp has possibilities for a homepage you can make cron.hourly
> and put a script there.
> Example of script is:
> ----------------
> ken@pingu:~$ cat ip.script 
> #!/bin/bash
> wget www.showmyip.com -O /var/tmp/ip && grep nextgen /var/tmp/ip | cat>
> /var/tmp/test.html && ncftpput -u kennkarl -p xxxwhatever
> home.broadpark.no / /var/tmp/test.html
> ken@pingu:~$ 
> ------------------
>
> results :
> http://home.broadpark.no/~kennkarl/test.html
>
> Im never more than a hour away from home....
>
>
> Kenneth
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 15:43, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> > On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 09:14:26PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote:
> >
> > > What needs to be set up in order to login to my home box from work?  At
> > > home there is a cable modem, then a router, then two linux boxes, with
> > > mine running debian (sid). I have a 192.168.2.xx ip address.
> >
> > You'll need some way of identifying your home machine remotely.  I use
> > dyndns.org's service to get DNS.
> >
> > You'll also need to install ssh if you intend on logging in remotely.
> >
> > - -- 
> > Baloo
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