[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Mark Fowler]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Walid Shaari wrote:

> Could you please elaborate, or advise alternatives!

You could create a VPN for this situation.

If you want to do this on the cheap you can use ssh to do it.  Install ssh
from cygwin and set it to run as a Windows service on the database machine
and open up the firewall to allow connections to port 22 on that machine.
Then, from the client, ssh to the windows box and set up a tunnel that
will securily forward a local port on the client machine (somewhere random
on the internet) to the database machine's MSSQL port (it will do this by
encrypting the data and sending it via port 22).  Then configure your app
to connect to that local port.

There's lots of info about this from "man ssh" and on google about setting
up sshd on cygwin.

Hope that helps.

Mark.

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