From: Sean W. <li...@su...> - 2003-01-04 06:03:08
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Martin Dolphin wrote: > sorry, I left out that I was referring to the OpenSSH server > (sshd) port that is in cygwin. I agree it's a monster for size, but > works for me. > > You can set the ssh server up on the windows box, firewall off all > other ports but the one for ssh( or the port that you changed it to), > and then use PuTTY on the work machine to access mh over a secure > tunnel. And the whole thing is free. I use PuTTY for my term stuff, but stunnel works great for exactly that, tunneling sockets. Very lightweight compared to cygwin, it is only 57K for the Windows binary download. Rather easy to setup, very easy to use. You can map any port to it and use it. Runs on Linux/*nix/Windows. Great little package. I use it daily for my VNC and I even use it to encrypt my email to and from my server. -Sean |