Rory shows you how to connect the printing systems on different networks across the Internet in a secure manner. Whether you telecommute or not, you probably use some form of electronic connectivity to the office when you are not there. Can you check your work e-mail at home? Do machines send e-mail to your cell phone? Can you access your company's intranet from the Web? Or, maybe you have never even been to the corporate headquarters, and you rove the globe packing a laptop that connects to your company's headquarters via a virtual private network (VPN).
If you don't have your VPN set up yet by your IT staff with its unlimited budget, you might be interested in ssh.
ssh--oh yeah, that's a secure Telnet program, right? Yes, it is, and it's much, much more. You're not still using Telnet, are you? Previous issues of Linux Journal have talked about the ``much, much more'' of ssh (see Resources). In this article I show a specific example of using ssh to do ``much, much more''. I also demonstrate how to use ssh's port-forwarding feature to connect the printing systems on different networks across the Internet, at the same time securing the data while in transit.
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