I was ablle to SSH into my tablet for the first time about a week ago.

What are some neat things that I can do between my tablet and PC with this?

I do like old school stuff, games like Nethack, and I really love media, both videos and music.

Thanks.

Virtually anything You want, including X forwarding and any kind of virtual desktop finally *secure*, without sending passwords/traffic in the clear. Or, create encrypted tunnel between two machines, even if one is unreachable (behind NAT, that You don't control, so can't open ports), or even both unreachable, if You use common server in between, Your own (for example, home router with Tomato/OpenWRT/DD-WRT/whatever capable of real ssh), or one available as service (some of them free, google for it).

That was only to name few - it is hard to answer Your question, because it's like "I've got my first computer yesterday, please list neat things that I can do with it. I like playing soceer and basketball, and I'm listening to Heavy Metal". SSH is very wide topic, where only Your invention limit usage*.

/Estel

*Trivia - just half of an hour ago, I used N900 to control CNC machine, via emc2 and linuxbox without monitor. And, of course, I was connected using SSH

Wow.

Your first paragraph made absolutely no sense to me since I've never heard any of those before.

Off to type some of your suggestions into Google.

scp (secure copy) is based on ssh. Ideal for transfering files.

I use rsync over ssh to synchonize certain data between my N900 and my linux desktop.

Like Estel said, options are plenty.

Can't imagine you where able to live without ssh for all that time

I Googled "what is x forwarding" and only got 5 hits.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this concept.

Any good links would be really great if you've got them.

Thanks.

Couple useful things you can do:

Transfer files back and forth between Tablet and Desktop. Linux Gnome (or KDE) allows you to mount ssh filesystems by just typing the URL like sftp://root@192.168.0.2/home in Nautilus in location bar. This allows you to browse, see, edit,etc files from your tablet on your pc like files on your system. From Windows desktop, you can use winscp to access filesystem graphically.

Run any applications from your tablet on your PC, including graphical. ssh -X from Linux or using Xming or similar from Windows.

x forwarding allows you to run graphical applications from remote system (your tablet) on your Desktop. It runs the program on the remote system, but the graphical window opens on local PC.

If you are using Linux desktop, it is available native.

If you are using Windows, then you need Xming or similar program.

^ So to keep things simple, X Forwarding would let my play the default Solitaire game from my Windows XP on my tablet?

Ooh.

Not gonna work. Windows is not based on X. Your remote machine has to use an X server.

^ Back to do some more Googling then. *lol*

I think I need to watch a YouTube vid or something to better understand this.