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Old 02-Jul-2009, 21:34
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Default Re: Setup network between home and office PCs for remote acc

The only thing I recognized there was VNC, but that's not as secure as SSH, right?

Anyways, I read chapter 34 of Beginning SUSE Linux: Accessing Linux Remotely, and learned a few things. It looks like I could just type

Code:
ssh username@IP
to run bash on the remote pc and use the sftp command to transfer files. The chapter also talked about using the GUI remotely, which pretty much covers everything I want to do, but the book isn't up to date for SUSE 11.1, so his instructions aren't completely accurate as far as I could see. Before I could do anything like this, I have to configure the firewalls of both PCs. So, I need to go into yast>security and users>firewall>allowed services and enable secured server shell, right? Then I need to click advanced and open up a port through which to communicate? Here's a screenshot of the screen I wound up at. I believe I should type in 5900 for the port, but which box do I type that in? There are three entries for ports and one for IP protocols. Do I need to enter anything else to make ssh possible between these two machines?


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