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    From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Tue Mar 14 14:25:15 2023
    Has anybody experience of using remote terminal access to manage Windoze machines from Mageia? I have a very occasional need to contact Win 10
    machines 4 and 15 miles away, and cannot justify charity finance on a
    paid service for the amount of time it will be used.
    Searching around, the Linux solutions I've found all seem seem to
    involve .deb packages, although there seems to be a conversion process (alien).
    TIA

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    Grimble
    Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.20.4 on 5.15.98-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
    Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64


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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Tue Mar 14 15:12:24 2023
    On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:25:15 -0400, Grimble <[email protected]> wrote:

    Has anybody experience of using remote terminal access to manage Windoze machines from Mageia? I have a very occasional need to contact Win 10 machines 4 and 15 miles away, and cannot justify charity finance on a
    paid service for the amount of time it will be used.
    Searching around, the Linux solutions I've found all seem seem to
    involve .deb packages, although there seems to be a conversion process (alien).
    TIA

    I've never considered windows secure enough to risk opening up remote access for the people I've provided support for, so have no experience with it.

    If you do decide to go that route, look at putty/openssh for windows.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Wed Mar 15 04:51:45 2023
    On 2023-03-14, David W. Hodgins <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:25:15 -0400, Grimble <[email protected]> wrote:

    Has anybody experience of using remote terminal access to manage Windoze
    machines from Mageia? I have a very occasional need to contact Win 10
    machines 4 and 15 miles away, and cannot justify charity finance on a
    paid service for the amount of time it will be used.
    Searching around, the Linux solutions I've found all seem seem to
    involve .deb packages, although there seems to be a conversion process
    (alien).
    TIA

    I've never considered windows secure enough to risk opening up remote access for the people I've provided support for, so have no experience with it.

    If you do decide to go that route, look at putty/openssh for windows.

    I have gone the other way-- Windows to Linux via putty/openssh and it
    works well. The problem with Linux to Windows is that you sould need to
    run a permanant daemon on the Windows machine so it knows how to answer
    your call to it. And that would then be a target for people to try to
    break in via ssh. Harder then other ways, but another target
    non-the-less. A really good strong password would help. (ie say 20
    charactes long with no recognizable words in the phase, and a liberal
    sprinking of characters and numbers.

    Google gives me https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server#:~:text=On%20Windows%2010%20(version%201803,expand%20it%2C%20and%20select%20Install.


    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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