Hey, long time no post I know. I have been busy with something for 2 days now. I have been trying to use SSH. SSH means Secure Shell. Some of you might know about the free UNIX shells some services provide to you. They have a Linux running on the server and they give you an account with a limited set of command and a limited disk space. You can save your files and do your work and so on.
I had an account on one such shell. I seldom used it and it was deleted later. About a week ago, a friend of mine, Kalpik jumped on arch Linux. He went all the crap about how arch is good and all. What it did was all the people at #think-digit on irc.freenode.net (almost all) went on to install it. Some like me installed it as a VirtualOS. The other one was Mehul.
Couple of days ago, Mehul was trying to access the virtual machine from the host OS. He did a lot of things that I am mostly unaware of, and somehow, got the 2 to access via ssh. He then sent me the port, URL and the user/pass for the virtual OS on his PC to me and I logged in to it. This incident brought back the shell in my mind. I thought about giving it a try and maybe, have my system configured for SSH and use it anywhere.
I started on the hunt. Mainly google and the think-digit channel were my information sources and guides. With the help of Mehul, I tried setting it up on 29th June 2008. It turned out that I did not know Muhul’s PC has a static IP. Mine one does not. So, I has to do all the things in the world to get a dynamic DNS working on my box. I got an account at no-ip and then installed their client on the host system. Then I was trying a lot and lot to access the machine in vain. Some problems with port-forwarding and others with openSUSE’s firewall.
I decided to postpone it to 30th. On the 30th, I again with the help of Port Forward, forwarded the ports. Then opened them in openSUSE firewall. Then Sandeep, a.k.a. d1g1t helped me regarding the problems I was having with internal IP logins. It turns out that when you are trying to log in internally, you have to specify the internal IPs and not the external ones.
Finally, on 1st July 2008, I have set up the connection. Now, the next mission is to install WebMin which is something that lets to access your data from any PC, using a secure connection in a web browser. Something like a VNC connection. I will post about it once I set it up.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
you forced me to post here :O
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Anyways, Glad you got the setup working
Me making a post about setting up VNC too