Hi again Jim.
You could indeed setup a VPN connection through STN, if your running a product that
supports the MS VPN protocol and implementation, as far as I know most of these
packages are rather expensive tho.
The solution that I personally use is VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Its a free program with binaries for most OS's including *nix, Windows, ect ect ect.
It allows a PC anywhere kind of session into PC's, and it easily useable over a 28.8K
modem. As for security, I quote again:
Q54 How secure is VNC?
Access to your VNC desktop generally allows access to your whole environment, so
security is obviously important. VNC uses a challenge-response password scheme to make
the initial connection: the server sends a random series of bytes, which are encrypted
using the password typed in, and then returned to the server, which checks them
against the 'right' answer. After that the data is unencrypted and could, in theory,
be watched by other malicious users, though it's a bit harder to snoop a VNC session
than, say, a telnet, rlogin, or X session. Since VNC runs over a simple single TCP/IP
socket, it is easy to add support for SSL or some other encryption scheme if this is
important to you, or to tunnel it through something like SSH or Zebedee.
SSH allows you to redirect remote TCP/IP ports so that all traffic is strongly
encrypted, and this can be combined with VNC. SSH can also compress the encrypted data
- this can be very useful if using VNC over slow links. See the 'Using SSH with VNC'
page. Zebedee is a similar system which can be sometimes simpler to use. You can find
info here.
While we're on the subject of security, you should also be aware that only the first 8
characters of VNC passwords are significant. This is because the 'getpass' call used
in the Unix server to read a password has this restriction, and the other platforms
have been made compatible with this.
Wolfram Gloger < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> has built Xvnc with the TCP Wrapper
library, allowing you more control over which hosts are allowed to connect. See the
contribs page for details.
Enjoy,
Craig
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On Tue, 29-May-2001 02:39:18
Jim Harris wrote:
>I have been busy building-out my network here in my "lab" (make that
>read "basement"!) I now have a Linux (RH 7.1) box I am using as my
>"FTP" server box, I might want to fuss with HTTP a bit - and I am going
>to be playing around with other Windows and Linux related things.
>
>In other words - having one hell of a time!
>
>Here's the deal: I would like to know if there is any way I can "VPN",
>(or something simular) into my network - via a secure connection.
>
>I am -NOT- talking about "secure shell" or such-like - I want a secure
>way to access my entire network - in a manner simular to what M$
>provides.
>
>1. Does anyone have any ideas?
>2. Does anyone know if -STN- supports it (other than by simply opening
>a port to the outside world) -Inbound- VPN masq (simular to the way
>-OUTBOUND- VPN masq works) would be interesting.
>
>Has anyone tried it?
>
>Any comments???
>
>Jim
>
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