I figured out why it did not work orginally. I am NATing at my home
router. I don't have X ports mapped. I tried the only port I could find
in /etc/services for X.
david
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, David Brett wrote:
>
> > Hi Mikkel
> >
> > The firewall at work is NT running checkpoint, so I don't think this will
> > work.
> >
> >
> > david
> >
> Hi David,
> You are probably right about that. Somehow I don't think you
> could run Xnest on that box. I don't know anything about checkpoint -
> can it be set to forward a specific port connection from the internet to
> a specific machine/port inside the firewall? One thing you could do is
> to pick an unused port, and have it forwarded to port 22 on you office
> machine. You are running a form of Unix on the office machine, right?
> That way, you can use the port option on ssh to connect to that port on
> the firewall instead of the normal port 22.
>
> Now, for tracking down the software you need:
> OpenSSL - RedHat updates.
> OpenSSH - http://www.openssh.com/portable.html
> pick a mirror, and download the RPMs.
>
> You realy should get ssh anyway. It is a much safer way to access
> machines over the Internet!
>
> Mikkel
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