this should be simple ... please take a look

I have FreeBsd 4.9 stable on my network at home with other windows XP professional machines.

I would like to use the windows machines to administer my server and set it up to host my websites localy.

How do I do that?

Paul

First, you would do everyone a favor when you would compose a title to a new thread that actually says something about the topic.

What exactly do you want to administrate? There are various web-front ends for different services. I do all of my remote administration with a remote console (SSH Client) ala:

PUTTY: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~...y/download.html
or
Secure Shell: http://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/SSHSecur...lient-3.2.9.exe

Both of these are fine. I like to get knee deep in the config-files with the shell and vi. I am not fond of shiny-clicky administration. If you are a GUI fan, then you can check out webmin, which I have heard is fairly descent....

If you want to do remote web-development, and upload the work, an ftp-client will suffice.

any help?

-Steven
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yes, it helped. thanks I am going to try to install the ss on my win xp pro and see if I can connect to my freeBSD server.

for some reason I cant connect as root/password.

It finds the server but it is not authenticating...

what could be wrong?

I went ot my freebsd monitor and it said: unsupported request....

By default, FreeBSD doesn't allow root to log in via ssh(this is a security feature). You can of course override the setting, but there's a reason why they keep it like that. Create yourself a user account and use that to log in. Once logged in, you can always use su to change to the root login if necessary.

While you're at it, please read the forum rules and post a meaningful subject line next time you start a thread.
http://forums.devshed.com/t24097/s.html

exactly, in unix you only want to be root when absolutely necessary.

Scorpions -- one small thing you forgot (don't want to knock ya, your answers are always excellent!), the new user must to be added to the group "wheel".

...otherwise, ..no su.

(Well su to you too, sir.)

another thing, if your ssh daemon on the FreeBSD machine is set to only accept Protocol 2 connections (as well it should!!), you have to make sure that the client you are using is trying to connect using Protocol 2 and not the older and less secure Protocol 1.

-Steven
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