Craig,
I have licenses (really! Actual, legitimate licenses...) Cost is not
an isue - as a previous employer (just before they gave up the ghost and
died), was -THROWING AWAY- fully licensed copies of NTS/W 4.0. (They
were an OEM, and had stacks of them) I grabbed a few. Guess you just
had to be there....
VNC is another option - as I have some friends at my current employer
who are interested in this stuff
I am experimenting with the inbound VPN stuff & will report results.
Thanks!!
Jim
Craig Smith wrote:
> 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
> --
>
> 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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