On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 09:50:39PM -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > The phrase "enough of a pain to set up" is a red flag to me to make sure > I am putting my effort into what I really need versus what might be nice > (aka "gravy"). I appreciate the editorial !!! Please see my post. It's much easier than you think. > That being said, I'll google sshd_deamon to make sure I am understand > what it would provided me Actually, look at 'sshd_config'. (Actually, just *run* it.) I do have one suggestion--after sshd_config has completed, *if* you're tuneling ssh from the WAN side, edit the file /etc/sshd_config (EITHER under /etc/ssh on the Linux box, or /etc on the CygWin environment) to make the following changes: 1. Change "Port 22" to something different (e.g., "Port 2234"). Make sure to change your firewall to reflect that change. 2. Add a line to the end of the file of the form: AllowUsers mylogin where "mylogin" is the name of your account you'll be using to get into 'ssh'. This will prevent any other login from authenticating; again, it restricts the scriptkiddies' playground. > I did try getting the info from the router and it was there > (192.168.2.100) but I couldn't ping it. I can ping myself at the address > on XP/Cygwin. Hmm...if you're on the same subnet, you should be able to ping it. Take a look at the output of 'ipconfig /all' on the XP box--make sure the Default Gateway, IP address, netmask, and DNS servers all look right. It also sounds like you're using your router as your DHCP server, and the implication is that it isn't your Fedora box. Go into the router and make sure the DHCP range is something sensible (e.g., it may be set to something like 192.168.2.1-192.168.2.254. That would be bad.) Restrict it to something like 192.168.2.100-192.168.2.199. Then you can use the rest of the subnet range for static assignments. It's always a good idea to assign addresses according to a usage scheme; one I often use would be, for your selected subnet: 192.168.2.1-192.168.2.9 : Network devices. (Router, switches, etc.) 192.168.2.10-192.168.2.99: Server, printers 192.168.2.100-192.168.2.199: DHCP range 192.168.2.200-192.168.2.254: Experimental, VPN assignments For VPN schemes that assign IP addresses, on Class 'C' subnets I often assign working down from 254, giving me known addresses for guest machines, experimental hardware, etc. working up from 200. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines