idyllhands
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I'm trying to set up my home PC so I can access it from my laptop from a coffee shop. I have Ubuntu Hardy Heron on the laptop (and dual boot XP Home)
At home I have XP 64-bit.
My main question is: what is the safest/fastest/most secure way to do this? After much searching, I have learned that MS Remote Desktop is the fastest connection. But I can't get it to work even over my LAN (maybe because I have XP Home on one of the PCs?) I got UltraVNC to work over my LAN, but it wouldn't work from my dad's internet connection.
I have learned that SSH is the most secure method, but I'm still not finding a decent tutorial on doing that (the one I was reading required downloading cygwin, a sort of Linux emulator...seems a bit excessive just to get a protocol working).
So my last concern here is safety. I have a dlink router, and NVidia firewall running on my PC, but I have to set up a "Virtual Server" (which I believe is just what DLink calls port forwarding) to open up the port for uVNC. Is it safe to leave this port open? I mean, will it let anyone through? Or will it only allow a pc running uVNC and require a password? Or do I need to set up special rules or something?
Last question is: how do I find out if my ISP will allow me to use my IP address to accept incoming connections (I believe what you would call a "public IP"?)? Is there maybe a way I can ping myself from a proxy server?
Please give me a little help here, I am overwhelmed with all this new information right now and would like opinions on the best way to approach this =)
At home I have XP 64-bit.
My main question is: what is the safest/fastest/most secure way to do this? After much searching, I have learned that MS Remote Desktop is the fastest connection. But I can't get it to work even over my LAN (maybe because I have XP Home on one of the PCs?) I got UltraVNC to work over my LAN, but it wouldn't work from my dad's internet connection.
I have learned that SSH is the most secure method, but I'm still not finding a decent tutorial on doing that (the one I was reading required downloading cygwin, a sort of Linux emulator...seems a bit excessive just to get a protocol working).
So my last concern here is safety. I have a dlink router, and NVidia firewall running on my PC, but I have to set up a "Virtual Server" (which I believe is just what DLink calls port forwarding) to open up the port for uVNC. Is it safe to leave this port open? I mean, will it let anyone through? Or will it only allow a pc running uVNC and require a password? Or do I need to set up special rules or something?
Last question is: how do I find out if my ISP will allow me to use my IP address to accept incoming connections (I believe what you would call a "public IP"?)? Is there maybe a way I can ping myself from a proxy server?
Please give me a little help here, I am overwhelmed with all this new information right now and would like opinions on the best way to approach this =)
