On 17/01/2009 15:11, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Johnathon, et al, > > In your post from Thursday you mention you have OpenVPN installed to provide > remote access etc. > > In Rob's case he doesn't appear against this but worried about connections > to his own private network. > > Do you know if you can set up an OpenVPN server on a hosting site, no direct > connection to home network, but then either SSH to the OpenVPN server and > thence onto the client, or through some VNC equivilant? > > About a year or two ago, discussions were held here about providing some > sort of support package from the UK loco, but got bogged down for one reason > or another. This idea of setting up a hosted VPN server could be a way to > provide the remote support that we were finding difficult to arrange. > > I briefly looked at OpenVPN quite some time ago for remote access to my > brother's Windlows laptop as he was having lots of various problems - it > went puff before I got any further with the idea. > > Anyone fancy trying to set up such a project to see if it both works and is > workable? > > Maybe set up a server at someones place for testing purposes, and if all > works well there see if those nice people at Bitfolk, or whoever does the > podcast mirrors, could loan us an account for a period of time whilst trials > go on? Or maybe a bit of space on a Cononical server? > > If all works out, extend the server capabilities to host an iPBX and a CRM > (Customer Relationship Management) tool like SugarCRM, I think, and an > instant Ubuntu Support Service is formed. Now if you really wanted to get > onto the bandwagon, get a duplicate setup in the States, Europe and > elsewhere connected together and hey presto! something that no one else has > but is cost effective and a real boon to the Community. Hmm, better stop > there, beginning to go the realms of fantasy! > > It'd certainly make things a lot easier to do as there wouldn't be problems > with security, bandwidth or such like. > > Discuss! > > Ian > > Well I think it's a good idea if it's workable. I think I may have found a solution albeit not ideal by using reverse VNC where a PC on my network listens for connections from a client's PC, something along the lines of this... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=299489
I've yet to look into how to tunnel it over SSH but I'd probably implement it in a virtual machine. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
