[Fedora] Re: VPN

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Feb 24 05:00:51 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 21:12 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > rather than vpn, you might just want to use freenx which is a type of
> > remote desktop that communicates via ssh and a free client for Linux,
> > Macintosh or Windows is available from http://www.nomachine.com
> >
> > yum install freenx-server
> > copy /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key to your computer running nomachine
> > client - et voila
>     Errr, I need to access the Windows network that is BEHIND the FC10, 
> which is acting as the firewall and DHCP server for the network.  So, 
> I'm sitting at home on a WinXP machine, and I need to access our Windows 
> Server at the office, which sits behind an FC10 firewall (iptables).
----
actually, if it's Windows server, then all you really need to do is to
use Remote Desktop Protocol on your Windows system and port forward 3389
to the server (or better yet, pick another 'high' numbered port and
forward that to 3389 on your server using iptables on your F10 firewall.

Craig




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