[mythtv-users] Open VPN server on backend

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 19, 2015 4:42 PM, "Ben Kamen" <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 2015-11-19 3:36 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thursday, November 19, 2015 03:34:11 PM Ian Evans wrote:
> >>
> >> > My combined frontend/backend has 2gb of RAM. After too many times of
> >>
> >> > needing a file from the home network, I'm thinking of running an
> openvpn
> >>
> >> > server. Anyone running one on their MythTV box? Is it pretty light
> load
> >>
> >> > wise?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Why not just SSH? Do you need to do more than transfer files?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > Yep!
> >
> > SSH with SCP/SFTP -- and you're golden!
> >
>
> That would be fine if the main target was the myth box, but I'm looking to
> have access to files on my windows desktop and the sftp option would mean
> running an ftp server there as opposed to just having network access.
>
>
What about port forwarding using SSH? Not sure how practical it is for
accessing windows shares, but just thought I'd mention it because I use ssh
to remotely access devices on my home network (such as my router's web
interface, which is not exposed to the open web).

Karl
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