Re: Repair a remote PC

[Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com>]

On 27/10/12 05:15 PM, Kent West wrote:
> On 10/27/12 3:41 PM, Alex Padoly wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How I can do to repair a remote PC, I would like to install a software
> > and I would like to move some directory or some files.
> > Remote PC have LINUX or Windows XP, the Server have Debian ''Squeeze"
> If I understand, you're sitting at a Debian box, and want to
> remote-control a remote Linux box and/or a remote XP box.
>
> To remote to the Linux box, ssh will probably do what you want: ssh -Y
> alex@remotelinuxbox.remotedomain.remotetld
>
> To remote to the XP box, you can try rdesktop: rdesktop
> remoteXPbox-ipaddress
>
> Everything has to be setup to work with these tools, but that's the
> general route you want to go, probably.

I use ssh to connect to the remote server with local port forwarding 
(e.g. ssh remoteserver -L 5902:<local IP>:5900) to use TightVNC to 
attach to the remote Windows desktops.

Enabling boot on LAN on the remote PCs also allows you to turn them on.