Well, if you have a diskette drive on those machines, you can put putty on it. It does write some configuration info into the registry, but as long as you don't configure in your passwords... Anyone know if there is a version of SSH that runs as a java script? > that's all well and good if I'm connecting from a machine where I can > access a unix shell, but what If I'm connecting from any other variety > of os (namely, the windows machines here on campus) > > thanks > justin > > > James Spinti wrote: >> On Friday 07 March 2003 03:41 pm, Justin Haaheim wrote: >> >>>Why would it be a bad idea to open, say, 5801 to the internet? That's >>> all I would need to open. I have realVNC running a mini http server >>> that pops up a java applet to run vnc. This is nice because then I >>> can run the remote desktop from anywhere that has a web browser with >>> java. >> >> >> VNC runs unencrypted. You are better using X forwarding and >> compression with secure shell. For example: ssh -X -C username at host >> Then, from the $ there, run vncviewer 192.168.1.1:0 > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list