remote desktop access

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I know the following question is a popular one and one that has a
zillion possible solutions. I ask it here to see what anyone on this
list has perhaps done.

I have a user who wants to access a linux desktop at work from a windows
pc at home. There is a computer (firewall - rather conservative, but not
inflexible) between. I have been looking at things like tightvnc to
enable access. I am a bit unclear how to set this up. The tightvnc
windows client oddly does not support tunneling via ssh, even though the
linux client does. The machine in between is not graphic. The tightvnc
java server only allows the vncserver to be on the same machine.

I bet there is a way to route all this, but I am at a loss about where
to start. The java server would be nice in that the client would just go
to a web address and get the java code loaded as needed.

Perhaps a simple gateway of some port on the firewall direct to a port
on the linux desktop? Surely there is a way to do this without such
tricks.

I looked at nx (www.nocomputer.com). Looks good. But I am unsure if the
client (which it seems does ssh) will let me access a tightvnc/freenx
server via an intermediate machine.

(There was a similiar discussion on this list back in February. I think
the difference here is that the remote XP user wanted to access another
MS machine, not a linux machine, so RDP was suggested. I do not think
that applies here.)


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