[KLUG Members] Re: remote laptop over Internet

[Mike Williams]

>
>Thats the basics. 
>Here is what I want to do. 
>I frequently work 24Hr. shifts at University of ND FD. During that time I 
>frequently do my local FD paperwork on the laptop. However when I arrive
>back 
>at teh office I have to start the individual apps and then I mount teh 
>server, backup each app to teh server drive, tehn fire up the apps on teh 
>desktop (which use the server for teh DATA drives anyway) and restore teh 
>data from the backups created via the laptop. While this does work it is a 
>bit clumsey and time consuming.
>So my question, can I use ssh, or something like that to connect to the 
>server and mount the server nfs drive via the laptop. or does someone else 
>have a better idea?
>I know nothing about IP tunneling but I think this is possible because the 
>Server dialup is up most of the time. But how do I find teh server since
>it 
>internally is a 192.168... IP, and externally dynamic?
>
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions, directions.

Look at http://www.dynip.com for the problem of finding the machine's IP.  They give you a client program to install (I've done it on SuSE 7.1 with minimal trouble) That lets you connect to that machine by a name, <something>.dynip.com.  They charge a bit for the service, but I think it's like $100.00 a year.  There might be other implementations of Dynamic DNS out there, also.