[Elecraft] Remotely controlling a K2

[R. Kevin Stover]

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Unless he's in a very small company, owns the company and doesn't mind
the risk, and/or works for someone who isn't paying any attention to
network security, "ain't no way that's going to happen" should be the
answer.
My company does allow remote connection but only through a properly
designed and secured (expensive) Cisco tunnel. It's how our remote users
connect back to the company network. It also takes about 2 weeks and a
long list of approvals. You basically have to prove,

#1. That you need it for company business.
#2. That your running approved, meaning taken apart byte by byte by our
apps engineers and scrutinized, software.

Failing either one of those conditions brings about the "ain't no way
that's going to happen" response from we network security types.

Brett Howard wrote:
| I run VNC with no real problems.  The secret is to only allow that port
| access to specific IP addresses.  Granted someone can spoof the IP and
gain
| access but a lot of different holes have to line up just right for someone
| to first know what the number is and second know how to exploit the
system.
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
| [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jack Brindle
| Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:23 PM
| To: Elecraft List
| Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Remotely controlling a K2
|
| Just a warning here to be careful. VNCs are notorious for being
| unsecure. You are probably OK on the Mac for quite a while, but the
| Windows component may open up pandora's box. For this reason many, if
| not most, companies have banned VNC from their internal networks.
|
| Yeah, yuck!
|
|
| On Jan 28, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Barry McWilliams wrote:
|
|> Here's a configuration that may work.  It incorporates a K2 radio
|> control program running on your Mac and a means to control you Mac
|> via the Internet from your Windows operating system PCs.  (You've
|> got the audio part figured out.)
|>
|> 1) Install a K2 control program on you Mac.  This will allow you to
|> control the frequency, mode and other parameters of your K2.  Here
|> are two possible programs.
|>
|>   a)  David's (W4SMT) program that he mentioned here on the
|> reflector earlier today. (I don't know where it's available. This is
|> the first I've heard about his work ... sounds interesting.)
|>
|>   b) A program from NI5V ->
| (http://www.machamradio.com/software/ni5v/mack2/index.html
|> )
|>
|> 2) Install on you Mac a VNC (Virtual Network Computer) "server" that
|> allows you to capture your Mac's screen and keyboard.  With this,
|> you can control your Mac, and thus it's applications from another
|> computer via the internet.
|>
|>   Here's a link to a free VNC servere for OSX ->
|>       http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/index.html
|>
|> 3) Finally, you need a VNC "viewer" that runs on the Windows PCs to
|> connect to the above VNC "server",  control you Mac and run K2
|> control program.
|>   Here's a link to a VNC "viewer" that run on Windows ->
|>         http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/winvncviewer.html
|>
|> Here's the schematic ...
|>
|> Windows -> VNC Viewer -> internet -> VNC server -> K2 control program
|>
|> Hope this gives you some ideas,
|>
|> Barry, WK2S


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R. Kevin Stover, ACØH
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