Re: Remote access PC support
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:39:21PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 06:45:51PM -0500, speaker11@bellsouth.net wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>I have a question about remote access. One of my co-workers wants to
> >>>know if I could provide support for there small network of PC's at
> >>>home.
> >
> >
> >Yup. If every other system you're supporting is Linux, then SSH is
> >all you need (and it's X11 forwarding option is your friend). If not,
> >you'll have to go with the much slower, much more insecure VNC.
> >
>
> You can always tunnel the VNC connection through SSH. It's what
> I do for those unfortunate times I stuck on a windows machine
> (since the VNC viewer and PuTTY are monolithic executables that
> don't require administrative privileges to install).
Could you expand on how exactly you set that up? I rarely use windows
but sometimes I am forced to (like on campus computers). Also, is there
an easy way to acomplish the same thing on a linux box?
Joshua
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