[PLUG] VNC, SSH, and iptables [was: Transfering mozilla mail and newsgroup settings fromlinux to windows]

[Ari Finander]

Thanks for the idea, Michael. A friend of mine gave me a 14 inch monitor, so I installed the vnc server on the loinux box and set up a password. I then did an "su -l" and turned off the Fedora firewall for it to work! I was able to forward the emails I required to myself. What I would like to do now is the following (and I've been searching around for a couple of days and not making much progress):

1. Open a hole in the Fedora firewall for SSH (putty) from my laptop. Unless I'm mistaken, Fedora uses a generated file that it tells you not to edit to load the iptables rules on startup. Is it okay to edit this file? Do I only need to open a hole at TCP port 22? How can I tell is OpenSSH is already running (ps -aux | grep openssh)?

2. When I connect using PuTTy to the Fedora box from my windows laptop, how should I initiate the VNC environment? The other day I was using RealVNC 4.0beta from my WinXP desktop.

Thanks,

Ari




----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Holland <myk at westnet.com.au>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 07:43:02 +0800 (WST)
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Transfering mozilla mail and newsgroup settings fromlinux to windows

> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Ari Finander wrote:
> 
> > My monitor has gone in for repairs (does anyone have one they could loan
> > me for about a week?) and I'm working from my laptop now. My linux box
> 
> One word: "VNC".
> I suppose thats an acronym, not a word. OK - 3 words: fear and surprise.
> No, wait.
> 
> It might be easier to keep running the mail apps on your headless linux
> box. Just putty in from the laptop, install Xvnc, and run the client
> on windoze. Of course, you might be able to run an X client, I mean server
> (its confusing) on windows, but VNC is probably a lot easier.
> 
> Mike.
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