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Remote Access Programs
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Jim Thompson
2005-07-02 15:14:31 UTC
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Anyone here using remote access programs to connect to their home PC
while they're on the road?

I would like to read/reply-to E-mail, search thru the directory tree,
retrieve files I should have brought with me, etc.

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson
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Bob Nielsen
2005-07-02 18:57:41 UTC
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Post by Jim Thompson
Anyone here using remote access programs to connect to their home PC
while they're on the road?
I would like to read/reply-to E-mail, search thru the directory tree,
retrieve files I should have brought with me, etc.
Recommendations?
Thanks!
...Jim Thompson
I run Linux and that is pretty trivial using ssh (secure shell), which
makes an encrypted connection (that way passwords cannot be easily
sniffed). I can access my home computers from Windows machines by running
puTTy (a ssh and telnet client). I set up port forwarding in my
firewall/router for this. I suspect that a SSH server for Windows must
exist somewhere, but don't know of any.

Bob Nielsen
E.
2005-09-03 05:14:21 UTC
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Bob Nielsen wrote:

Wow, what a late reply.
Post by Bob Nielsen
I run Linux and that is pretty trivial using ssh (secure shell), which
makes an encrypted connection (that way passwords cannot be easily
"easily"? :)

ssh uses 3DES by default, which (while aging) is strong enough to be
used by, say, banks.

The work required to break a 56-bit 3DES key is not ((2^56)*3), it is
(((2^56)^2)^2) (oh, god, is my math right?) compared to normal DES.
There's a man-in-the-middle attack that is said to be O(2^112), but
that's still secure enough for my paranoid ass.
Post by Bob Nielsen
I suspect that a SSH server for Windows must
exist somewhere, but don't know of any.
There's always <URL:http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/>, but that's...
barely functional, to say the least.

Hm, if you ran that (with port forwarding on both ends), you could
probably run a Remote Desktop connection through it, I think.

-E (back to lurking, yup)

h***@oddkarma.com
2005-07-12 04:21:50 UTC
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Shouldn't you be staying home instead of menacing innocent drivers?
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Jim Thompson
2005-07-12 14:57:57 UTC
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Post by h***@oddkarma.com
Shouldn't you be staying home instead of menacing innocent drivers?
Sheeesh! A Q45 trumps a Beamer anytime ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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