[Cialug] Remote Access

[kristau]

For easy X forwarding under Windows, try "X live CD."  It basically
runs a light cygwin X11 environment off a CD.  Just pop it in the
running Windows box and it auto-launches.  When you're done, it leaves
minimal to no footprint behind.

On 8/8/06, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> What type of access do you need? A terminal window, or a full X session,
> or something else? For just a terminal window, i'd recommend
> downloading PuTTY (Google for "putty" and it should be in the first 2
> hits) and using it to SSH to your Linux box. You'll need to make sure
> your Linux box has a routable IP, or forward the SSH port (TCP/22) from
> a routable IP to the Linux box.
>
> X is a bit more complicated; i've never needed to go from MS Windows to
> X Windows. There are projects such as Cygwin that will let you set up
> an X server on Windows and then from there you'd be able to connect to
> the Linux box and run applications. A possibly easier solution would be
> to run VNC on the Linux box and then connect from Windows with a VNC
> viewer. I've done that before, though with Linux or OS X as the client
> rather than Windows. It gives you a full desktop, and is much more
> responsive than X over SSH. To use VNC to go from one Linux box to
> another, get SSH working, then on the server do "vncserver :2 -geometry
> 1024x768 -depth 8" and on the client "vncviewer -via <server hostname>
> localhost:1". When done you can stop the server with "vncserver
> -kill :1" on the server. I would think that using Windows as the client
> would be similar, though the client command may differ slightly.
>
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 08:01, David Stout wrote:
> >I would like to access my Linux box from work. At home I am running
> > SuSe 10.1 with a linksys router. At work I am on Win XP Pro. What is
> > the best way to accomplish this. Do I need to forward any ports?
> >
> >David Stout
> >Systems Programmer
> >Regency Homes
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