remote desktop access

[Mike Reinehr]

On Friday 23 September 2005 12:28 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote:
> > Tim:
> >> I use FreeNX to access my linux machine from my Windows laptop at work
> >> daily. When F'ing comcast's connection if working, it works great.
> >> All you really need is an ssh connection.
> >>
> >> The response time of my KDE desktop is surprisingly quick.  I highly
> >> recommend it.
> >
> > I run debian 3.1 at work, and at home too, and wife has laptop running
> > winxphome.
> >
> > I need a solution for both linux to linux gui remote admin as well winxp
> > to linux remote.....
> >
> > Do I install freeNX with 'apt-get install freenx'? Should that get me
> > going in right direction?
>
> I did a search at
> http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages for various
> permutations of 'free' and 'nx' and didn't come up with anything. Can't
> imagine it's not there as I know it is in Ubuntu.
>
> Also, you'll need to do some reading on how to set it up. Especially if
> you want it properly secured. You'll especially want to generate a set
> of public/private ssh keys for the machines. The default configuration
> isn't particularly secure IIRC.
>
> Sorry I can't be more detailed as it's been a while since I worked with nx.
>
> Michael

	Here they are:

http://freenx.berlios.de/download.php

cmr


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