[ale] pcAnywhere through an ipchains firewall

Wandered Inn esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
Thu Aug 10 07:47:21 EDT 2000


Joe Knapka wrote:
> 
> If pcAnywhere uses a single port, or a static collection of
> ports (nothing weird like FTP's dynamic port assignments),
> then it's easy: from outside, you ssh to the firewall and
> have ssh forward a local port to the pcAnywhere port on the
> machine behind the firewall. Private IPs behind the firewall
> are fine for this, and the across-the-public-Internet part
> of the path is encrypted by ssh.
> 
> If pcAnywhere uses IP in a way that makes it difficult or
> impossible to use a portforwarding solution, then a stopgap
> measure would be to use VNC rather than pcAnywhere, which
> will definitely work in such a situation, and is available
> free. Some people say its performance under Windows is not
> as good as pcAnywhere, and it doesn't provide some of
> the pcAnywhere frills like built-in file-transfer function,
> but you can always forward a passive FTP or NetBIOS session
> through the firewall if you need to move files around.
> 
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc

And vnc works from a non-windows machine as well as provides an X server
for windows.

> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- Joe

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Until later, Geoffrey
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