VPN Settings and SSH

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mindy r

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Hi all! I have a Linux SSH server running at my house and was wondering if they was any way to configure my Droid to use my SSH server as an encrypted tunnel. I want to do this so I can access my local network settings (ex 192.168.1.1) from my droids web browser. I was trying to configure it in the settings->wireless and Wifi->VPN Settings, but I have had no luck.

Thanks in advance!
 
Try out connectbot. Of course your server will need to be set up for remote access (port forwarding, IP, static address for the server and such)
 
I have connect bot and can successfully log in to my server via connect bot but I have no idea how to make my droid web browser integrate with connect bot.

Thanks for the speedy reply!
 
I am trying to access webmin , web based program to help manage a linux server, however It is only available via my local network 192.168.1.6:10000 (I will not make it available publicly because of security concerns). When I am at my PC away from home I open putty and connect and then tell firefox to use a manual proxy configuration (socks5 127.0.0.1:7070) and then I can type 192.168.1.6:10000 and wala im able to access webmin.


Thanks for the fast responds again!
 
Your welcome. I just set up my first server about a week ago so I'm still learning.

I decided to not use webmin. And unfortunately haven't done any proxy stuff. I've been pretty lucky that connectbot and andftp have been able to do what I needed from my phone.
 
Have fun with your server, I know I have. You might find this interstring it explains a great use of ssh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUplDL4hSuc Also I would not use FTP as it is not secure at all. You can use AndFTP (android app) and WinSCP (PC program) and connect via ssh and do eveything you can do with ftp but everything is encrypted.
 
I've used andftp because it has an sftp setting which is FTP through an SSH connection. So It's more secure then plain FTP.

Thanks for the link I'll definitely check it out!
 
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