Re: Headless Wheezy
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 17:37:55 +0100
Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> David <david.g_jones@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I should have given a better explanation as to what I'm
> > trying to achieve.
>
> > I would like to use the Alix box along with TeamViewer as a gateway
> > into my network.
>
> > I've tried TeamViewer on a windoze box and it works well, but the
> > windoze box failed so I thought I would try the Alix board. I did
> > consider a Raspberry Pi, but TeamViewer wont run on a Pi.
>
> You need TeamViewer with Windows, because Windows has no (or at least
> not yet) a usable SSH-Server for you to log into.
Not Invented Here. Though MS are quite happy to use DNS, DHCP, LDAP,
Kerberos etc... actually, as the command line is now of great importance
to Windows server and domain admins, a secure remote command line ought
to be quite useful to them. There are commercial third-party ssh servers
for Windows.
>
> > Once I can gain access into my network I can then use SSH to monitor
> > the points I want to see.
>
> Why don't you just use SSH to log into your Alix box and then use SSH
> to connect to your internal device from there. This is what I do all
> the time. No need for TeamViewer or anything else.
>
> Free yourself from the contrained thinking of Windows, embrace the
> freeness of the Unix world.
>
Indeed. Or forward various TCP ports on your router to various LAN
addresses on TCP/22 and use ssh directly from the outside.
I run a server and usually ssh into that, forwarding IMAP and another
two or three TCP protocols over ssh to the server. One of the small web
applications on the server is a wake-on-lan utility whereby I can wake
either of the LAN workstations, then ssh directly to my Linux
workstation or use RDP over the server's sshd to my wife's Windows
machine. I do use OpenVPN into the server if I want full access to my
web server, ssh tunnelling doesn't sort out DNS in the way that a VPN
does.
--
Joe
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