Thanks for the tips Michael and Shaun! I'm not to concerned about
security.... I will only be using it between two machines which are
right next to each other to drag files betw..... wait! I can't do that
with a vnc. Darn. Looks like I'm stuck with filezilla!
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:39 AM Michael Butash <
michael@butash.net> wrote:
>
> You need a vnc server, of which there are multiple. Try "apt search vnc". Google for a decent one these days how to install it.
>
> I never much like VNC, not much security to it.
>
> As much as it pains me to admit, rdp with windows is a pretty robust solution, and know there's xrdp, but needs to usually work with vnc, still lacks most rdp security features, and never had any good luck getting it all working. Linux is just sort of bad about remote desktop handling in general, at least compared to windows.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 8:34 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> apparently it is not on MINT and it is not available in apt.
>>
>> sudo apt-get install vnc
>> [sudo] password for bmike1:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Unable to locate package vnc
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:03 AM Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Team viewer runs on Linux too. Vnc is already installed on most Linux distro's
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 7, 2020, 7:51 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for telling me about nomachine. that is what I was looking for!
>> >> it is like team viewer but made for linux and by that I assume more
>> >> secure than team viewer!
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:21 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > yes.... I used this before. i think i'll use this.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:00 PM Todd Cole via PLUG-discuss
>> >> > <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > filezilla is a gui sftp over ssh easy to use and available in most dist
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:50 PM Donald Mac McCarthy via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> You can also use the NoMachine software as well, it works quite nicely
>> >> > >> over an SSH connection.
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Mac
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote on 5/6/20 2:19 PM:
>> >> > >> > Thanks, I'll check it out.
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 5:19 PM Shaun Anderson <shaunandersonaz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > >> >> Alexander was correct...it's openssh-server. Graphically will depend on the desktop you're using.
>> >> > >> >>
>> >> > >> >> You can setup NFS to mount another computer as a local drive. See this link for configuring autofs
>> >> > >> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs
>> >> > >> >>
>> >> > >> >>
>> >> > >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:16 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> >> > >> >>> Thanks! What about doing it graphically?
>> >> > >> >>>
>> >> > >> >>> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:25 PM Snyder, Alexander J
>> >> > >> >>> <alexander@snyderfamily.co> wrote:
>> >> > >> >>>> Search for openssh or openssh-server or something like that. I forget the actual package name, but "Open SSH" is what you want.
>> >> > >> >>>>
>> >> > >> >>>> I'm pretty sure it's comes by default on all major distributions.
>> >> > >> >>>>
>> >> > >> >>>> ssh@newserver.com
>> >> > >> >>>>
>> >> > >> >>>> Thanks,
>> >> > >> >>>> Alexander
>> >> > >> >>>>
>> >> > >> >>>> Sent from my Galaxy S10+
>> >> > >> >>>>
>> >> > >> >>>> On Wed, May 6, 2020, 13:03 Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> >> > >> >>>>> I'm going to want the business computer to talk to the main one. You
>> >> > >> >>>>> do that via ssh? I seem to remember that you needed ssh-server (or
>> >> > >> >>>>> something like that) installed on at least one of the computers but
>> >> > >> >>>>> apt-get install ssh<tab><tab> shows that nothing like that is on
>> >> > >> >>>>> apt.... What's the deal?
>> >> > >> >>>>>
>> >> > >> >>>>> What I would really like is for one of the computers to just appear on
>> >> > >> >>>>> the other computer as if it were like an external drive.
>> >> > >> >>>>>
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