Remote X through a proxy

[Brian Densmore]

To run SSH on a windows box pick up Secure CRT (30 day free shareware
http://www.vandyke.com) or some other SSH enabled tool (i.e. freeware). I
have found that Secure CRT is (IMHO) the most stable and workable one.

SSH is very easy to use. It looks like this:

command prompt >ssh user at remote.com
password for user >mypassword
connected etc. >

PS make sure you have a very recent copy of ssh, earlier versions aren't as
secure (if you worry about such things)
Best Regards,
Brian

Brian Densmore <mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>  

 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Hammitt [mailto:tony at speedscript.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:56 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Remote X through a proxy
> 
> 
> SSH is made for things like this.  You set up the SSH login, 
> then run the SSH
> agent script (a bit fuzzy on the details here, but the SSH 
> manpages are pretty
> good) and then all of your communications go over the SSH 
> tunnel, so only
> one port needs to be opened.  This of course assumes that SSH 
> will run on
> windows2000, which it may not.  I don't know.  If you were 
> running Linux
> as your desktop, you'd be all set (couldn't resist the jab, sorry :-)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>     Tony
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Persky, Ken <Ken.Persky at dsionline.com>
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:40 AM
> Subject: Remote X through a proxy
> 
> 
> > I am wondering if there is anyway to run a remote X 
> application through a
> > proxy.  Here's the situation...
> > the remote box is actually an AIX box and I am trying to 
> connect my win2000
> > client, which is behind a firewall and uses a proxy server 
> to it.  I have
> > opened the default X port (6000), for the connection, but I 
> am not sure how
> > to handle the proxy.  I was trying to do this by setting the display
> > environment variable on my aix account to the ip:disp 
> number of my win2000
> > client, which has a n X server running on it, but I 
> realized that wouldn't
> > make it through the proxy.  I am looking for an idea or a 
> suggestion which I
> > can look into and try to implement, or if its not possible 
> please tell me so
> > I will stop pounding my head against a wall:)
> > Thanks 
> > Ken Persky
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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