Remote login to Linux

[roger_girardin]

lol

to upload from windows to linux (wan network) :

1) create an account at dyndns.org to get a dns name (your_name.dyndns.org)
2) apt-get install ddclient (a soft which will send your ip adress to dyndns update their tables)
3) if your linux server is not a router you have to install iptables and figure it to forward ssh requests to the server
4) install winscp (freeware) on the windows comps

then it works as a ftp client

[A. Jorge Garcia]

OK, what's this putty? Is that a windows ssh client? I would like to ssh from a WIMPdoze box to my KNOPPIX server.

TIA,
AJG

[garyng]

OK, what's this putty? Is that a windows ssh client? I would like to ssh from a WIMPdoze box to my KNOPPIX server.

TIA,
AJG

A ssh client, at least it runs on windows. It is a single executable, no DLL no nothing. Very handy. just do a search on google and you would be leaded to the website.

[eco2geek]

There's also a really nice open source Windows SFTP/SCP client called WinSCP that lets you move stuff back and forth between Windows and Linux using the ssh protocol, with a File Manager-like GUI.

And, of course, there's always good old Cygwin.

[A. Jorge Garcia]

OK, I tried putty from home (WIMxP) to my ssh server (KNOPPIX) at work. Now I can access my files and run console apps. I've not used a console only version of Linux in eons. What apps do you find useful in this kind of setup?

I seem to remember lynx for surfing, pico for editting, talk for IMing and pine for email. Of these only lynx is in KNOPPIX. I apt-get installed talk but can't get it to work.....

TIA,
AJG

[eco2geek]

seem to remember lynx for surfing, pico for editting, talk for IMing and pine for email. Of these only lynx is in KNOPPIX. I apt-get installed talk but can't get it to work.....

Pine and pico evidently have licenses that are too restrictive to be in Debian "free." Nano is a free pico clone, and mutt is a good replacement for pine. (Midnight Commander has a good editor, too: try "mcedit filename".)

BTW, you're welcome to login to my server and see what you can do in console mode

You're a brave man. I'm almost afraid to, for fear of being prosecuted!

[OErjan]

my favorite messagin app is centericq.
it can use msn, icq (ofcource), yahoo, irc and a few more. al in the same consolewindow
vhat is wrong with VI as editor? it is in virtually ALL *ix'es so... yeah, i know not as easy as notepad/kedit/gedit...

[Hunkah]

Here is a walk through:
http://www.start-linux.com/articles/article_193.php

[A. Jorge Garcia]

OK, putty is good in a pinch. Is there some sort of xclient or x11 emulator or kde emulator for use with something like putty?

TIA,
AJG

[OErjan]

not aware of one, but there is cygwin... and vnc ofcource.