On Wednesday 15 January 2003 07:10 am, Tomas Larsson wrote: > I have a small home network with Win XP professional. They are > connected to Internet trough one RH8 box, acting as a firewall. On > the RH box I am running a samba and Apache. > Since I have dynamic IP I'm using DynDNS with ddclient. Now I want > to connect my laptop (WinXP home) from remote to one of my XP > machines behind the firewall. How do I do? It is my understanding > that CIPE doesn't work on XP, or is that old information. If so do > I need one client on each XP machine or is it enough to have one > server on the RH box and one on the laptop. Does XP have IPSEC? If so then connect to the Linux box using IPSEC and then from there to the XP box. However, setting up the IPSEC server side is not trivial. I don't know about the client since I never use Windows :-) Another alternative is to use the terminal server on XP. Either use xinetd or ssh to forward port 3389 thru the Linux box to the to the XP box. This is pretty simple to do. Xinetd doesn't enhance security in any way but the secure shell method (V2!) with RSA authentication is about as secure as it gets. However, the secure shell trick requires a client that can do port forwarding and I don't know of a free Windows client that has that feature (If anyone does, let me know) -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only of the front sight. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
