<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Alexander, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks. Mainly I want to interact with it via RDP instead of needing a separate kbd, mouse, and monitor. The VPS I’m using is requires RDP, and I mostly use it for uploading and restarting the service, but sometimes I do a little more. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve got several computers plugged into a local switch, along with this new one, and I want it to be easy to update the stuff I’m working on (locally).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From the outside, it only needs to expose one public port that's accessible via https as an API that customers running my web app will be accessing (invisible to them) via an encrypted channel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The service itself needs to be able to access a half-dozen other APIs.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can call you this evening, or tomorrow late morning. Any preference?</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 3, 2024, at 5:33 PM, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Do you have a dedicated firewall? Putting a windows box with RDP open on the public Internet sounds like a recipe for disaster, but you do you. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I suppose you could rely on the windows firewall, but I don't have enough faith in that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class="">---<br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Alexander<br class=""><br class="">Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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On Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 07:12:11 PM EST, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:
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<div class=""><div id="m_-883365655030861074ydp79e18ed1yiv3250096661" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Do you want this windows box accessible over the public Internet?! I assume that's why you want Dynamic DNS.</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">I can help you set it up.</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">Hit me up offline.</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class=""><a shape="rect" href="mailto:alexander@snyderfamily.co" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">alexander@snyderfamily.co</a></div><div class="">480.478.5865</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div id="m_-883365655030861074ydp79e18ed1yiv3250096661yqt14600" class=""><div class="">---<br clear="none" class="">Thanks,<br clear="none" class="">Alexander<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro</div></div></div><br clear="none" class=""><div id="m_-883365655030861074ydp79e18ed1yiv3250096661yqt52980" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Dec 3, 2024, 16:48 David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class=""></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" class="">I’m getting a little Dell Optiplex 7050 with Win10 Pro and I’d like some help getting it set up as a server with dynamic DNS (attached to my Cox internet) so it’s accessible via RDP. <br clear="none" class="">
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I’m developing a back-end service that needs to run on Windows, and I’m tired of paying for a remote VPS that’s not used very much.<br clear="none" class="">
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