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@gmail.com> wrote:On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <plug-discuss-request@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> wrote:
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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:49:13 -0700
From: Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
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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@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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