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linux.com — You probably rely on the services on your own private network -- wikis, mail servers, Web sites, and other applications you've installed. What happens when you have to leave the friendly confines of your network? With minimum exposure and few simple tools, you can get all of the comforts of home anywhere you can find an Internet connection.

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 13, 2008

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  • Knet88, on 11/12/2008, -1/+11Incomplete, no mention of SFTP, or FISH.
  • inactive, on 11/13/2008, -2/+11Why is this getting dugg? Are Linux users just now waking up to SSH?
  • Xibby, on 11/13/2008, -0/+8Check your BIOS for Wake On LAN functionality. If you turn this on you can send a magic packet to your computer over the LAN that will cause it to turn on. The trick is, you need another computer on the LAN to send the packet.

    Routers running DD-WRT allow you to do this, you can even schedule sending a WOL packet though the DD-WRT web interface. OpenWRT and Tomato may as well.
  • doshindude, on 11/13/2008, -1/+9is not relevant to this.
  • sigmaman2, on 11/13/2008, -0/+8Linux users? Not at all. Linux Converts, yes, possibly.
  • smotpoker, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6X11 has had remote desktop/GUI support since at least the mid/late 90s, it is certainly nothing new. The point of ssh is to add a custom level of security, provide a decent shell (on top of acting as a secure proxy) and facilitate secure file xfers several different ways.

    Of course, ssh is almost as old, but it's relatively unknown and way more versatile.

  • newdigger, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4I do aswell, but that's not what this article was about.
  • leodavinci, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4Not even close to giving the same functionality as SSH. With SSH you can tunnel applications over the LAN/internet and have them run on your desktop like they are a local app. You can also tunnel all of your traffic over SSH to a home machine (like this tutorial shows).

    RDP allows you to remotely control your PC, and it does a nice job of it, but SSH has way more potential for doing sweet stuff :).
  • elementop, on 11/14/2008, -0/+3No.

    Where I work, we connect to remote equipment over a 600ms satellite hop. Trust me, you *don't* want to do all of your work on a GUI over a satellite hop. The delay is bad enough to make even a CLI painful.

    I won't even go into all of the options for tunneling data that SSH provides that remote desktop never even dreamed of doing.
  • newdigger, on 11/14/2008, -0/+3I can't believe I actually left out a word....
  • akamurph, on 11/13/2008, -0/+3Been doing this for years from work to home... set up openssh on home PC, use Putty at work to connect to said home machine, RDP into home machine.
  • sigmaman2, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2If you've heard of SSH, then you've likely used Putty on Windows. But for Gnome, there's a nice little program I recently discovered called gSTM. It manages all of your SSH tunnels from a nice GUI interface. It's an older program, but it still works on my Ubuntu 8.10 laptop.
  • leamanc, on 11/13/2008, -1/+3Yeah, that was my thought too. SSH is one of the first things *nix newbies learn about. And most people know it can be used for more than getting a shell on a remote system.
  • linuxeventually, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2SSHFS on Linux and the [slow, cached, but useful] port Dokan SSHFS on Windows. Mounts files as if they are were just any local file which allows them to opened by programs that don't support Samba, NFS, etc.
  • javaroast, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2No SSH is not just for Unix like systems. It's a network protocol that could be and has been implemented on other platforms as well.
  • leamanc, on 11/13/2008, -2/+4Well, you're only partly right. SSH *is* just for Unix-like systems (Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, etc.), but there are SSH clients for all platforms. What you linked to is just an SSH client for Windows. And it's not even the best one out there for Windows. Check out Putty.
  • newdigger, on 11/13/2008, -1/+3I just Hamachi. Stupid simple. No issues.
  • klitzbtc, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2I never knew about the necessity of having another computer on the LAN to send the packet, a quick search however turned up these:
    http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2007/10/21/how ...
    http://www.remotewakeup.com/en/index.php
  • unrealmp3, on 11/13/2008, -1/+2I installed CopSSH on my home PC to secure all my connections when I do some data transfer or remote access. And it also act as a personal proxy to bypass firewall's restrictions.
  • michaelrsa, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1I've tunneled from my school computer to my home machine, it takes some effort to set up but that's fine. My question is: Can I connect remotely to my router or is there any way to turn my computer on remotely? Because every time I want to connect to my home computer I have to leave it on and electricity is expensive. Any help would be appreciated.
  • macuser9214, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1No, not Remote Desktop. VPN....
  • klitzbtc, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Might want to look into "Wake on Lan" or WoL, that's the only thing I've ever heard about that's similar to what you need.
  • theCreator79, on 11/13/2008, -1/+2Wake on LAN
  • r00fus, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Definitely doesn't seem simple for OSX (it's not even universal)?
  • zoydberg, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1BAMSE > FISH http://www.free.lp.se/bamse/
  • b0rg, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1SSH has a lot of uses - I like it because with tunneling I can use other apps on a machine (like VNC) without exposiing them to anyone except authenticated users. But it's worth reminding people that SSH is made up with a number of components, all of which are high-value targets. tcp/22 is second only to tcp/1433 for port scans, and one of only two machines I've had compromised was due to a week-old SSH vulnerability.
  • antdude, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1What about newbies?
  • michaelrsa, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the help guys, I did look into that WoL stuff a while ago, but I kind of hit a dead end when it came to that.
  • geesamba, on 11/13/2008, -0/+0A quick search turned up: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/9d65/
  • BooLag, on 04/23/2009, -4/+4or CHIPS
  • erichh, on 11/14/2008, -1/+1A much easier way than using FoxyProxy is to use SeaMonkey which has a built in proxy switcher and DNS Socks check box.
  • marek23, on 11/14/2008, -0/+0stupid way. not cool.
  • macuser9214, on 11/13/2008, -2/+2...or just set up a VPN and be able to do the same thing without even needing the CLI. Don't get me wrong, I use the CLI every single day, and often times more-so than I use the GUI, but...what linux user (on digg) doesn't know about SSH?
  • offtone, on 11/13/2008, -2/+0Remote Desktop?
  • ChunkxZor, on 11/13/2008, -3/+0Thats awesome
  • theCreator79, on 11/13/2008, -6/+1I use logmein.com
  • doshindude, on 11/13/2008, -6/+1SSH is great, I use it at my University to download/upload/submit CS programs. It's so customizeable.
    This is the one I use (simply called SSH Secure Shell):
    [it's for windows, so it's not limited to just Linux]:
    http://cis.unh.edu/index.cfm?id=0EC9E8A6-990B-C7D6 ...
  • inactive, on 11/13/2008, -17/+1iPhone.

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