remotely controlling your computer

[Michael Havens]

okay.... it is installed. Any pointers on how to use it? I'm going to bed
now! God night.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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