Comments on: Connecting a PC and iSeries remotly using only TCP/IP

By: joshua2

joshua2 — Fri, 20 May 2005 09:43:37 +0000

Assuming you’re talking about via the ‘Net (firewalled): as far as I can tell, you’ll have to open port 23 inbound to your iSeries. You need to have a serious look at the security issues (which are signifigant) before doing this. As for the interface, you can run a web server that will handle 5250 emulation in the user’s browser (see symtrax or mochasoft) or you can install a lightweight emulator on the PC (same companies). If anyone knows how to do this w/o opening 23 on the firewall, let me know.

By: rmagnan

rmagnan — Thu, 19 May 2005 11:21:54 +0000

I use GoToMyPc by Citrix. It is not cheap but very efficient and fast. You can connect to your office PC then to the iSeries from anywhere in the world through the Internet.

By: larrythethird

larrythethird — Thu, 19 May 2005 10:50:23 +0000

You need something on both sied that can talk to each other, such as ssh. On your PC you can get a free version of Putty. ssh should be part of most server OSs.

By: cmcllc

cmcllc — Thu, 19 May 2005 09:16:41 +0000

If you are using CA Express it is a simple as using the IP address that you have set your AS400 at. You will be using TELNET port 23, their are some other TELNET utilities like TN5250 that also use port 23.