Hey everyone,

I am curious if anyone knows of a non-expensive way to use a nix box to manage a win 2k server.

The company I work for is expanding, its not at a point where it has the resources to get a dedicated VPN system. But it would have if there was some basic way to communicate back and forth. I have set some simple things up and am curious if anyone has any ideas to go further. Keep in mind that I am trying to create something secure, otherwise I would just share the terminal services in windows.


Presently I am using SSH and SFTP to be able to file share remotely. To do this I setup a nix box with the proper ports shared. They are the only live ports behind the router. Then I set the nix box with file shares for the information on the server. I can log into SSH mount the network drives and use SFTP to transfer files. I have been running this for 6 months or so with no problems.

I would like to be able to either run a session on the win 2k server tunneled through SSH. But I don’t know if this is possible. I have been poking around on Google. And have a way to share X but not what I am looking for. The other way I was looking at the problem is if I couldn’t get a GUI is there a way to get cmd line control.

Let me know if you need more info.

Well if you read this thanks for your time and any ideas you can yield.