>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of >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 > > >> ssh -L 3390:private-ip-of-remote-XP-machine:3389 >> username at 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5126 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090112/424c19fe/attachment-0005.bin>