Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

[Ean Kingston]

> On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote:
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>> On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these
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>> curious markings:
>> > security note:
>> > vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure.  any
>> > ports you open/forward should be directed to your ip only.  even
>> > better, try a knocking daemon.
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>> This is why you set up an SSH tunnel between the two machines. The
>> Handbook (as always) shows how to do this, with examples.
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>> Best Regards,
>> Christopher Nehren
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> To forward a VNC session through SSH, the user will need to install a
> SSH application on the Windows computer.  PuTTY is a free example, and
> is available at:
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> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

AFAIK Putty is a client only. The original user wanted to access his WinXP
Home system from FreeBSD. So, Putty isn't going to do it. I think there is
an OpenSSH implementation (both client and server) for Win32 that runs on
XP. I know the cygwin implementation works (but the original poster may
not want that much added to the XP system).

http://www.cygwin.com/ and http://www.openssh.org/

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