ssh

[edijs]

Hi!

I'm a noob to unixy oses so I had aquestion. how can I connect to a remote FreeBSD box which is behind a router using a Windows XP machine? Using PUTTY or what? Thanks!

 

[megamaced]

The first thing you need to do is set up port forwarding on the router. Configure port 22 to redirect to your computer's internal NAT address.

Make sure OpenSSH is installed on the FreeBSD box. I am not sure how you would do this on BSD though...

Then on Windows, simply type in the IP address for your router. Not in internal NAT address, but the external address. Hint: the IP address that websites see.

 

[kenji san]

openSSH is the default SSH system in freeBSD. Take a look at the manual page on openSSH, if you need to set it up. It's very simple.