On 8/31/20 3:24 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| 
| Does anybody know of a software package or service that does for SSH the kind
| of thing that teamviewer does?
| 
| I run into linux systems that are behind firewalls  and trying to bounce
| through some windows box using teamviewer or other screen sharing app is
| getting real old.
Teamviewer is a screen sharing service where the screen sharing is handled through a middleman.
I start teamviewer and give someone a token so that they can access my screen.
It works behind masqueraded firewalls.



I don't know what teamviewer does.  Can you explain?  Particularly in
the scenario you are talking about.
In this case someone wants me to connect to teamviewer so that I can access their screen on a windows desktop.
Where I can use putty or some other terminal client to access the linux server.


Windows boxes now have ssh.  And they can have a large chunk of
certain Linux distros.  But they do ssh natively out-of-the-box.
True but windows users like to pay for GUI services.

I've only use ssh as a client on Window with Windows.  But surely
Windows has an ssh server too (what would the shell be? PowerSell?
cmd.exe?).
I believe that Windows also has a powershell service that is like SSH.
But still this requires some kind of port forward to get through the firewall.


Why would you bounce through a Windows box?  Surely Windows is a bad
choice for a gateway.  Lots of people think Windows boxes are fine:
Its not my choice.
I would rather poke myself in the eye than have to deal with a windows server.
But I like to eat and that means I need to do what the paying customers want.


1) on a desktop (not me)

2) on a server for services that are designed to run on Windows.

But not a gateway/router.

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