FC3 Security

[Rick Bilonick]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:19, Rick Bilonick wrote:
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>>If I can't for some reason get a separate office for this project, I 
>>will take the computer home and do the work at home (say, one or two 
>>days a week). I already know I can do this. I do have a computer at 
>>work, but because it is Windows XP, it makes it difficult to use to 
>>access my home computers. I do this now with my own home computer. I 
>>have cygnus (I don't recall the name) on the XP box but I can't get it 
>>to do X windows so I'm kind of limited.
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>Cygwin X is actually pretty good - you just have to turn off the
>firewall on XP to let it work.  On the Linux box run gdmconfig
>and enable XDMCP, then restart X.  On the windows box, from
>a cygwin bash prompt enter:
>Xwin -query your_server
>and you will get the whole desktop from the linux box.  Or,
>you can run
>Xwin -multiwindow
>then 'ssh -X' to the linux box and each X program you start will
>open a new window on your desktop.
>However you need a low-latency connection for X to work well. You
>probably won't like it over the internet to home.  You might
>like VNC better for remote access.
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I cannot turn off the firewall on the XP box. Would that be a good thing 
to do anyway?

Rick B.