but it's possible, and you can run a secure connexion from elsewhere, either using a VPN (I use and recommend openvpn), or tunnelling VNC through ssh.
Here's an example of what I do to configure routers & printers remotely, using their web interfaces. I'm using this coz I think the port numbers are more obvious:-)
In a terminal window (eg Konsole) ssh -L8080:192.168.2.254:80 sysadmin.office.lan
Then I point Mozilla or something at http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Moz connects to port 8080 locally, ssh forwards the connexion to an (mine) admin computer at work & ssh there forwards it to the gateway box. Rather than going through my VPN, I could use the external name for my office as ssh still connects through to my desktop.
vnc, smtp and many other TCP protocols can be forwarded.
Hey John, that's a very interesting point you're raising. However how 'compatible' is openvpn with an M$ network? I mean is it a seemless integration or are there flaws? Having a quite Microsoft oriented network the idea sure would help in integrating new non-Ms servers to the network...
Thanks for your input!
Seb.
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I currently use openvpn with ipcop based firewalls as the server and openvpn windows clients. It works perfectly.
Sebastien Tremblay wrote:
but it's possible, and you can run a secure connexion from elsewhere, either using a VPN (I use and recommend openvpn), or tunnelling VNC through ssh.
Here's an example of what I do to configure routers & printers remotely, using their web interfaces. I'm using this coz I think the port numbers are more obvious:-)
In a terminal window (eg Konsole) ssh -L8080:192.168.2.254:80 sysadmin.office.lan
Then I point Mozilla or something at http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Moz connects to port 8080 locally, ssh forwards the connexion to an (mine) admin computer at work & ssh there forwards it to the gateway box. Rather than going through my VPN, I could use the external name for my office as ssh still connects through to my desktop.
vnc, smtp and many other TCP protocols can be forwarded.
Hey John, that's a very interesting point you're raising. However how 'compatible' is openvpn with an M$ network? I mean is it a seemless integration or are there flaws? Having a quite Microsoft oriented network the idea sure would help in integrating new non-Ms servers to the network...
Thanks for your input!
Seb.
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On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 07:37 -0400, William Warren wrote:
I currently use openvpn with ipcop based firewalls as the server and openvpn windows clients. It works perfectly.
I also use this setup (IPCOP as the firewall, linux and windows openvpn clients to connect to the firewall).
I have had no issues with that setup.
I have not setup an openvpn server on CentOS, but I know that they do exist.
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Hey John, that's a very interesting point you're raising. However how 'compatible' is openvpn with an M$ network?
Very compatible, the trick is to properly setup SAMBA. Make sure that the CentOS box is elected as the master node and provides WINS, then in OpenVPN push to the clients the WINS setting back to the OpenVPN server's IP.
Brett
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