Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Secure shell can overcome a number of networking deficiencies. Jack Wallen illustrates how you can use SSH port forwarding to create encrypted tunnels for remote and local forwarding. The ssh system ...

A practical control center for mixed systems and protocols.

When connecting to a system remotely using SSH (Secure Shell), usually you provide the SSH command string to log in to the system and then execute commands on the remote system using the current SSH ...

Have you ever avoided checking your email over that free wireless access point for fear of someone snarfing your password? Secure, trusted networks aren't always available, so today we'll show you how ...

In my previous two posts on the subject, I explained why you’d want to use X11 to drive a host remotely, and the basics of configuring your Mac to run OS X’s X11 server and to use local X11 software.

If you're juggling multiple remote connections daily, this is the utility for you. Brien walks through the steps to use mRemoteNG, from installation to deployment. As a freelance tech writer, I make ...

I've got cygwin set up on my Windows based HTPC and have sshd running, port 22 open for local traffic only (not open on the router, just Windows Firewall). It's completing the connection, but ...

Often when you're working on a computer, you need to connect to other computers to run software or check data on them. This could involve connecting to a business server used by your work team or ...