Re: [CentOS] [OT] Remote control of a WinXP machine from a Linux host

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Marko Vojinovic Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:36 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Remote control of a WinXP machine from a Linux

host

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ssh -L 3390:private-ip-of-remote-XP-machine:3389

username@ip-or-hostname-of-remote-NAT-server

Well, first, private-ip-of-remote-XP-machine is dynamic, given by my ISP's dhcp server, so I cannot have 100% guarantee that it will always be the same. And I have no easy way of finding it out if it does change.

Can't you use one of those free dyndns-thingies? That way you'd always connect to my.homecomputer.com (or something) instead of an arbitrary ip.

At least that's what I do when connecting from eg work to my homecomputers (linux and windows machines).

HTH.