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Re: X server for windows
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Date: 
Fri, 24 Mar 2000 05:38:15 GMT
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Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote:
hmmm... not sure I understand here...  I connect to GWU for my PPP
connection, and need to get to my computer at Georgetown...  I thought I
might be able to connect the network neighborhood from my home pc to
samba at georgetown, over ssh - but I can't seem to get it to work. :/

Different than that. You can use SSH to set up  "poor man's vpn". I'm too
tired to think hard about it right now :) but the end result is your
computer thinks it has a new network interface with an IP address on a
private (10.x.x.x) network. And the other side of the connection is another
machine on that network.



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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: X server for windows
 
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 05:38:15 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: X server for windows': (...) cool - that sounds like it might do the trick... have any how-to's off-hand? :) Dan (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) I have VNC set up, and I use it sometimes - but transferring 1600x1200 on a 56K, even over a compressed SSH is too slow for comfort... :/ (...) 56K - I've used X over 33k before, and it was better than vnc - still less data transferred, I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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