Remote Shell Connection

[Dante_Caligari]

I have a Linux box sitting in the corner running Slackware 10, and then I have my main Windows XP pro machine sitting on my desk. They can be connected with a standard crossover cable and networked, but what I want to be able to do is to be able to access the Konsole from my XP machine through the network.

Does anyone know a way that this can be done?

 

[mBernhardt]

You need to have an SSH Server installed on the Slackware box. Installing that should generate your session key that SSH uses.

Once that is done I would recommend putty as your SSH client. Connect to the Slackware box by IP or HostName.

(Very useful tool, btw. Especially if you are planning on going headless on that box.)

 

[Dante_Caligari]

That sounds like what I am looking for. I have not used SSH or Putty before, although I have heard of them. How hard is the SSH installation? I found this tutorial for SSH installation:
http://www.topology.org/linux/openssh.html

And I assume that these are the correct downloads:
http://www.openssh.com/
http://www.putty.nl/download.html

Going headless on that box is exactly what I intend to do. Having 8 computers in a small room makes things hard to navigate and it will be nice to be able to control everything from one machine.

 

[mBernhardt]

I have SSH Servers setup on all Ubuntu boxes. The install was as simple as apt-get install ssh-server (or whatever the package is) it created the key and everything and I connect using the box's normal users.

I would imagine that walkthru would get everything going. The client side is nothing. Its just an .exe file that you run.

 

[Dante_Caligari]

I cannot get SSH to even install on my Slackware box. I probably downloaded the wrong version (looks like maybe a source code), but maybe I just don't know what I am doing. Maybe I do not even have my network configured correctly? I ran netconfig and manually assigned 192.168.0.5 as my IP.

I could not get my flash drive to work on the box, so I wasted a cd on a measly ~1Mb file. Does anyone know why Slackware wont recognize my flash drive?

This is turning into more Linux talk than networking. I apologize.