Feb
22
Sending a Message to Windows Workstation
February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
You can use utility smbclient (part of samba server) to send a message to windows system from FreeBSD (or even from Linux/Solaris/UNIX OS). This command lets you send messages to windows workstations, display browse lists, and connect to SMB shares. Genral syntax of to send a message is as follows:
smbclient -M <WINDOW-SYSTEM-NAME> <<EOF
Message
Message
…
..
…
When the message […]
Feb
22
How to export display from Linux to FreeBSD
February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The process is extremely simple all you need to understand is configuration file modification. X Window System use TCP port 6000 to listen network connection. By default almost all operating system including FreeBSD turns off this feature for security reason. Because of this setting you are not allowed to remotely open a window. Let us […]
Feb
21
How to restrict a user only to portforwarding in SSH Tunnel
February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This sounds strange, what? Ok, let me tell you for what you would need that…
I have a user which works with my MySQL-database by Windows-ODBC. The usual communication between client and server runs unencrypted. So I decided to tunnel the communication through an ssh-tunnel.
Problem 1: User has shell-access and the user has the […]