Re: remotely controlling your computer

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@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@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
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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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