On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:32:40PM -0800, 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. One note of caution: have another box locally, can be of the age that can be scrounged for $0 and needn't have monitor/keyboard, on which is installed the same software as is on the remote system, so you can test what you're about to do to the remote system on a local box of your own first. I say this because I've just broken a remote box doing an apt-get upgrade - security upgrades to woody - which Isn't Supposed To Happen. Don't know exactly how, because ssh is one of the things that broke... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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