remotely controlling your computer

[Michael Havens]

well, I was given a webpage and so I went there. there was a bebian
download page and I went there. There was a deb file for download so I did
that. I didn't think of trying apt. I just tried it and it is not in my
repositories. Hey look.... it is on sourceforge! OOPS! That's just the
source code. More google....

I found a page that said I had to enable the universe repositories but I
discovered they were already enabled (I found that page had to do with
Warty). Back to google.....

It is magical.... it lead me to
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/tightvncserver which did it. At least it
did it for the laptop. The ubuntu machine is taking forever with it's
'Ubuntu Software Center'!

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why do you always do things the hard way.  No need to compile from
> source.  In Linux one of the forms will be in your repository.  For
> Windows, download the installer.
>
> But yes, the source will be quite small to download if you really want
> it.  I would have no idea where to find the makefile and such as I have
> never had any reason to be concerned about the source.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion to use tightvnc. I've heard of them. I
>> downloaded the source and I need to ask...... where is the makefile and all
>> the stuff needed to compile it? You know... I'm uneasy about the download.
>> It only ran for  a second or so. Does that sound right?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> VNC is pretty handy for such things though you may need to set up VPN
>>> and SSH to do it securely from the internet (read the tutorials).  It also
>>> has the benefit of being cross platform and the [dis-]advantage (depending
>>> on who you ask) of being primarily GUI based.  There are several flavors of
>>> VNC:
>>>   http://www.realvnc.com/
>>>   http://www.tightvnc.com/
>>>   http://www.uvnc.com/
>>>
>>> At SLUG, we mostly use TightVNC but we are also using it within a LAN
>>> most of the time.  BTW, it is really handy for doing classes and meetings
>>> where people can look at there own screens to see what the
>>> instructor/lecturer is doing.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Benjamin Francom <bfrancom at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <
>>>> plug-discuss-request at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Message: 4
>>>>> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:49:13 -0700
>>>>> From: Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list <PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>>>> Subject: Re: remotely controlling your computer
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>>>>>
>>>>> one more thing..... I want to be able to auto accept the request to
>>>>> access
>>>>> the computer.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > What are your favorite methods of remotely accessing your computer? I
>>>>> > found krfb and krdc but I only don't want to have to start two
>>>>> programs
>>>>> > every time I want to do this.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If console access, SSH.
>>>> For GUI:
>>>> It used to be FreeNX, but the project seems to have not been updated in
>>>> a long time.  So far, it looks like the replacment is neatx which is
>>>> similar...using same protocols/compression (I believe).
>>>> The NX protocol is nice/fast, and secure (uses SSH)...
>>>> https://code.google.com/p/neatx/
>>>>
>>>> Kind of related to the topic is a 'remote session manager' ...Currently
>>>> use PAC (Perl Auto Connector) Manager.  It lets you save your
>>>> preferences/settings for various sessions (ssh,rdp,etc).
>>>> It's like vRD on Windows.
>>>>
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