Remote Access Programs

[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

[Bob Nielsen]

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.]

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]

Shouldn't you be staying home instead of menacing innocent drivers?

[Jim Thompson]

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