Hi Cheryl! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to it and I will read it. > My questions involve: > 1. differences between telnet and ftp servers--right now I have ftpd and > telnetd-ssl installed on both boxes.
telnet will give you a shell on the remote machine while ftp is for file
transfer. but don't use telnet or telnet-ssl if you have ssh (secure
shell) which offers the same functionality as telnet but through an
encrypted connection
> 2. ip address to use: I have a cable connection to the Internet so only
> have one ethernet ip listed but the other box is on a ppp connection and
> two ips are given when running ipconfig.
there was a thread here a few weeks ago covering that. i think the
solution was that the one with the ppp connection creates an ssh tunnel to
the fixed ip address providing port forwarding
something like
ssh -C <fixed-ip-address> -f -L <local port>:<fixed-ip-address>:<remote port>
and then you can ssh/telnet from the fixed ip address machine to
localhost:<remote port>
you better look for the thread, i might be wrong.
> (3) Other things I need to do to make these connections work between
> boxes.
well, hopefully already answered....
yours martin
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