How do you keep an SSH session alive when you are forced to use a crappy wireless network that constantly disconnects? [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2008 - 12 answers

Is there a quick way of copying files "up" an SSH connection? [more inside]
posted on Jun 2, 2008 - 15 answers

My career involves me using OSX Terminal ssh'd into other servers. Often, I have multiple ssh connections open, sometimes two or three to the same server. I can't bring myself to use tabs. Is there anything that can automatically be done to automatically color/title my terminal windows once I ssh into them? [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2008 - 7 answers

Using X11 forwarding to bring my Ubuntu server desktop to my MacBook Pro. Everything works fine if I run a specific program (e.g., Firefox) but goes to hell if I try 'startx' - I keep getting an AIGLX display error message. Any help appreciated. [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2008 - 11 answers

Older versions of Filezilla? Or another freeware ftp client that can handle SSH and SSL? [more inside]
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - 8 answers

How can I make my laptop pretend it's connected directly to the internet when I'm behind a firewall that blocks almost all ports? [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2008 - 4 answers

Can I get a gentoo machine to authenticate/mount home directories from a windows 2003 server with a single password? [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I get MSN Messenger (or Windows Live Messenger, I guess it's called now) to show other peoples' webcams when I'm surfing behind an SSH tunnel proxy? [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 2 answers

I noticed this morning in my system logs that I had some failed FTP and SSH login attempts from an IP in China. I thought I was going to have get all Cliff Stoll on this guy, but then looking back further I saw that this has been happening for months, from lots of different IP addresses. [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 9 answers

Is there any way to grab a screen shot from a Windows command line via ssh? [more inside]
posted on Dec 4, 2007 - 11 answers

What common unix apps have built-in support for tunneling over ssh, besides rsync? [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - 7 answers

How do I restart an X Windows application running on a remote machine, and have it display on that computer's locally-attached display? (I do not want to forward/tunnel it to the machine I'm sitting at.) [more inside]
posted on Nov 16, 2007 - 16 answers

packet loss wreaks more havoc than it ought to on ssh sessions... even when connectivity returns, the session can take take a dozen seconds to return to interactivity. it's often faster to reconnect with a new session than to wait for the established session to recover. frustrating and distracting. has anyone else seen and solved this issue? some kind of retry/timeout/backoff adjustment or something?
posted on Oct 25, 2007 - 5 answers

Best *nix distro for SSH, RDC, router and print server. Or i could use windows if that would satisfy the conditions. [more inside]
posted on Oct 11, 2007 - 17 answers

Is there some simple way other than SMB that I can edit remote Unix files from my Windows machine? [more inside]
posted on Sep 22, 2007 - 12 answers

After installing OpenSSH on your iPhone, is there a way to disable it except when needed? [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2007 - 11 answers

How do I go about logging in, remotely and with something like VNC, to Mac OSX, while also (at the same time) using the computer locally as a different user? Is this possible? Is there a different way to do this? (I already have ssh all set up, if that'll help.)
posted on Aug 6, 2007 - 6 answers

I need a little help setting up remote admin (VNC) access for Mac OS X 10.4.10 from a Windows client at work. Firewalls on both ends, significant port restrictions at work, and [more inside]
posted on Jul 14, 2007 - 5 answers

Running an SSH server illegal in some countries? [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2007 - 3 answers

How can I SSH (or telnet) into my Windows machine (2000 and XP) and get a command line?
posted on Jun 18, 2007 - 16 answers

Seeking a better understanding of Linux terminals, mostly being used remotely via SSH. History files, paths, ncurses, etc. [more inside]
posted on May 30, 2007 - 11 answers

How can I prove the ssh_config keyword TrustX11Applications is working? [more inside]
posted on Mar 27, 2007 - 2 answers

I'm looking for some help accessing my home mac from my work mac. Both machines are running OS 10.4. My home mac is behind a D-Link 624 router, using verizon FIOS. [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2007 - 12 answers

I need to do a massive replace of Flash object HTML code throughout an entire site. I really don't want to download each page and fix it by hand. [more inside]
posted on Jan 25, 2007 - 11 answers

How can I allow remote connections to the remote side of my ssh tunnel? -g doesn't work. Neither does GatewayPorts. [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2006 - 6 answers

SSHFilter: How to restrict commands available to users who connect to a Linux box for file transfer, presumably via SSH? [more inside]
posted on Oct 19, 2006 - 13 answers

File transfer from mac to pc. How to SSH or FTP? Simple explanations please. (Alternate solutions accepted). [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2006 - 10 answers

Okay, so I'm now at Uni and I have the internet in my room: However, I'd forgotten that they have a very stringent access policy: now mefites, can you help me set up Bittorent using SSH tunnels or equivalent? [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2006 - 11 answers

Linksys NSLU2 or ASUS WL-500G? I am looking for a wireless, cheap (around $100), Unix-based NAS solution that will let me plug in a couple of USB or SATA drives and do things like serve SSH and run BitTorrent. [more inside]
posted on Sep 19, 2006 - 8 answers

I'm trying to run soulseek through SSH tunnels to avoid a restrictive college newtork policy. It doesn't seem to be working terribly well. [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2006 - 7 answers

I'd like to have mobile SSH capability, in addition to email and text messaging. Blackberry or Treo? [more inside]
posted on Aug 23, 2006 - 15 answers

I want to setup an SSH tunnel on OSX, but... [more inside]
posted on Aug 10, 2006 - 10 answers

I'm living in a Chinese university dorm. I was running Web traffic through an SSH tunnel, and about 10 minutes into reading about China's Internet censorship (which naturally includes lots of blocked terms as examples, like "falun gong" and "Tibet"), the service staff in this building knocked on my door. [more inside]
posted on Aug 10, 2006 - 17 answers

I'm looking for a JAVA package/class library that would allow me to connect, send and receive data via the telnet and SSH protocol. I would love for the package/library to handle the connecting, handshaking, authentication, etc. I would like the the protocol to be transparent to me, meaning that the way I send data and receive wouldn't change my code if it was SSH or telnet. Any version of the JAVA is fine. I'm trying to develop a different kind of telnet/ssh client and would rather not rewrite code if there is something already out there. I could even get started with just telnet. Thank you for your time and help. Have a great one.
posted on Jul 31, 2006 - 8 answers

Can I get a screenshot of the GUI desktop from an ssh login? [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2006 - 5 answers

Linux to Mac SSH connection: Why is scp so much slower in one direction? [more inside]
posted on Jun 9, 2006 - 10 answers

Do you have a smartphone that you love that matches what I'm looking for? I can google featuresets, but what I'm looking for is personal experiences. [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2006 - 13 answers

How can I access my webmail via a ssh tunnel? My corporate firewall started blocking ports 2095, 2096, and 2082, but I can ssh to the box that is hosting my domain. [more inside]
posted on Jan 4, 2006 - 15 answers

How can I tail a remote logfile without actually opening up an SSH connection each time? [more inside]
posted on Dec 27, 2005 - 13 answers

I need to listen to music at work, but my iTunes library is at home. I've set up remote sharing via SSH tunnelling and Bonjour proxying, but I'm a bit of a nazi about playcounts -- I have multiple Smart Playlists set up to create mixes based on play count -- and iTunes doesn't update playcounts for shared tracks when they're played remotely. Fellow iTunes micromanagers: Is there a better solution for having one iTunes library in two places at once? [more inside]
posted on Nov 22, 2005 - 7 answers

Much to my surprise, I have been given a visa to visit ol' zhongguo (china) for a few months (i'll be doing research on minorities). I would like to be able to surf the net anonymously but I'm a bit of a nOOb when it comes to proxy servers and what not. I remember seeing a similar question on slashdot but answers said things like "Just ssh into ..." I know what ssh is, etc. but i'm not sure how to use a proxy through ssh. can anyone give me some basic instructions? I would appreciate help. Comments like "Don't go to China if you don't want to obey their rules!!!" or whatever are less appreciated. Thanks!
posted on May 25, 2005 - 9 answers

Secure networking question: I am hoping to set up a remotely accessible wiki running on my home computer, but I'm a networking doofus. [MI]
posted on Nov 29, 2004 - 3 answers

Source Control: I need a good, free GUI that runs on Linux and Windows that will allow me to create, manipulate, and update a CVS repository on a remote Linux machine via SSH.
posted on Oct 11, 2004 - 5 answers

Where I work has suddenly become all fascist about internet access and blocked SSH access. This is a pain because it was how I used to access my emails (SSH in, use Pine). I can't use a POP3 client on my PC because they've had that port blocked for ages. I'm currently using mail2web but don't like the way it handles replies and the general lack of functionality. My question is: is there a good free webmail application out there that is either managed (like mail2web) or I can install in my account (Linux, no db access, no root). If the latter can cope with the folders I have (I use spamassassin), safely render HTML emails (possible junk mail) and is easy to install, then that would be excellent. I have tried Google and Freshmeat but all the ones I saw were either commercial or looked rather featureless. Any recommendations?
posted on May 27, 2004 - 13 answers

FTP help: I have some files on an external server (Apache) that I am unable to delete because "there is no such file or directory". Yet, mysteriously, they remain. [mi]
posted on Apr 30, 2004 - 6 answers