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That'll probably run you $10/mo for a *nix system and $30-50/mo for a Windows system. That's expensive. You could just tunnel anything over SSH to all your home systems. Just have SSH listening on a different port for each system.

veritas_libertas

Hyper-Me wrote: »

www.logmein.com

Hamachi + VNC is also a great option.

joey74055 wrote: »

or better yet, is there a way to make your home labs accessiable over the internet without using VPN? Thx in advance!

Of course, open your router firewall to the internet or "better yet" to a specific subnet where you'll be accessing it from so every Tom, Dick, and Harry can't try to log in as well.

What kind of setup do you have? Don't mind helping you...

Hyper-Me

dynamik wrote: »

That'll probably run you $10/mo for a *nix system and $30-50/mo for a Windows system. That's expensive. You could just tunnel anything over SSH to all your home systems. Just have SSH listening on a different port for each system.

Logmein is free for windows. I use it almost every day.

They have paid versions, but i've not really seen any reason to use them. They also have an android app that is absolutely bitchin, but does cost 30$ (one time)

darkerosxx wrote: »

Of course, open your router firewall to the internet or "better yet" to a specific subnet where you'll be accessing it from so every Tom, Dick, and Harry can't try to log in as well.

What kind of setup do you have? Don't mind helping you...

Thanks, right now I just have my cable internet going into a cable modem, then to a Linksys wireless router. My servers and PC are connected to the Linksys. I've got some Cisco routers and switches but I have just recently moved and I haven't had the chance to set them back up.

Hyper-Me wrote: »

Logmein is free for windows. I use it almost every day.

They have paid versions, but i've not really seen any reason to use them. They also have an android app that is absolutely bitchin, but does cost 30$ (one time)

Does it also host Windows and Linux servers at another facility that he can have administrative control over? If not, how is that relevant to what I posted? That was clearly the part of his question that I was addressing with those numbers.

joey74055 wrote: »

Thanks, right now I just have my cable internet going into a cable modem, then to a Linksys wireless router. My servers and PC are connected to the Linksys. I've got some Cisco routers and switches but I have just recently moved and I haven't had the chance to set them back up.

In linksys, it's probably still called port forwarding, so look for a tab/section on that.

Example: if you had a windows server @ 192.168.1.55 that u wanted to Remote Desktop into, u would put in port 3389 to forward to 192.168.1.55. Then, when u initiate RDP from outside your home to the public IP you have at home, the linksys would connect you to RDP on 192.168.1.55.

darkerosxx wrote: »

In linksys, it's probably still called port forwarding, so look for a tab/section on that.

Example: if you had a windows server @ 192.168.1.55 that u wanted to Remote Desktop into, u would put in port 3389 to forward to 192.168.1.55. Then, when u initiate RDP from outside your home to the public IP you have at home, the linksys would connect you to RDP on 192.168.1.55.

Ok, cool. Thanks for this info! Do you put in any port or does it need to be port 3389. Is port 3389 the default port for Remote Deskop?

Yeah, default port for RDP is 3389. You have to put in the specific port to do port forwarding, so if you want to forward SSH you would do port 22, for example.

darkerosxx wrote: »

Yeah, default port for RDP is 3389. You have to put in the specific port to do port forwarding, so if you want to forward SSH you would do port 22, for example.

Ok, great! Thanks for the help

NightShade03

Make sure you have a good (or strong) password too on your servers.

Hyper-Me

dynamik wrote: »

Does it also host Windows and Linux servers at another facility that he can have administrative control over? If not, how is that relevant to what I posted? That was clearly the part of his question that I was addressing with those numbers.

I read his original post as him wanting an online server at a third-party location or the abiility to access his home lab from the internet.

Hyper-Me wrote: »

I read his original post as him wanting an online server at a third-party location or the abiility to access his home lab from the internet.

Which is exactly why I said he could alternatively tunnel over SSH since the pricing would probably be steep for what he wanted. I don't understand why quoted me and reiterated LogMeIn was free. I was responding to his question, not your recommendation for LogMeIn.

earweed

darkerosxx wrote: »

In linksys, it's probably still called port forwarding, so look for a tab/section on that.

Example: if you had a windows server @ 192.168.1.55 that u wanted to Remote Desktop into, u would put in port 3389 to forward to 192.168.1.55. Then, when u initiate RDP from outside your home to the public IP you have at home, the linksys would connect you to RDP on 192.168.1.55.

If you had a crapy trend net like mine it would be under the access tab and you would choose special AP. I had to do it just to enable RDP'ing to my wife and daughters computers.

NightShade03 wrote: »

Make sure you have a good (or strong) password too on your servers.

Agreed. I always set up a rule to only allow the subnets I'll connect from, so OP if you can do that on your linksys, u should.

I travel, so that doesn't work for me, but I

SSH key-based authentication.