Jim Thompson wrote:
Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Get your own domain name, and register it with DynDNS. Your router
should have a dynamic DNS client in it, or you can use ddclient or
whatever the Windows equivalent is. Now you have a public Internet
presence.

Then use port forwarding (another router setting) to connect whatever
remote access software you use to the outside world. Since my stuff is
mostly Linux, I just use X tunnelled via ssh, i.e. from a Windows client
I use Putty for command line and X applications, and Expandrive for
secure drive sharing. (It's nicer from a Linux client, but that's
because I'm a command line sort of guy.)

I forward ssh from each machine on my network to a different port on the
WAN side, so I can just go

ssh -Y -p xxxxx mydomain.com

and get to any machine I want by using the right value of xxxxx.
(None of them is forwarded to port 22.)

You can also use a free DynDNS account, but they give you a cheesy
domain name. For $20 a year or whatever it is, I'd rather have a more
congenial name.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs






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