Re: Ubuntu Remote Desktop

PDD

Hi Folks,

I was wondering if anyone here has their Ubuntu box setup at home to be accessed via VNC via Java Viewer? I am looking to be able to control my desktop at home while I am in college, the reason I've chosen VNC and Java Viewer is because I then require nothin gon the client side bar the requisite JVM.

Some friends who are more linux heads then me have suggested SSH as its more secure etc. I am wondering though whats required on the client side, do I not need putty or something similar?

Any feedback and help with this would be appreciated.

Dave

pickarooney

I've tried it before but it was unusable with my slow upload speed at home.

Teamviewer 6 works quite well if you have someone on the other end to accept the connection. I'm not sure if there's a setting to autoconnect.

There's also a VNC-style viewer called NX Desktop (http://www.nomachine.com/) which is a good bit faster than VNC itself. It takes a little setting up and you need a dyndns/opendns account to be able to use it properly, but it's fairly well documented on the net.

PDD

@pickarooney - Cheers for that I will have a look at it, I did come across it before but dismissed it as it requires a client install. As my client machine will be a locked down pc on campus it may not be the most suitable for now.

pickarooney

Sorry, I didn't quite pick up on that first time.

I sometimes use SparkAngels, but I don't think there's an English version and again I'm pretty sure it requires the other end user to accept the connection.

There's a web version of TeamViewer I think, but I can't find it right now, that should allow you to use a consitent ID to connect to a known machine.

VampiricPadraig

Stab in the dark here.

If you can enable remote desktop with authentication, then get a free dyndns.org address (grab the updater aswell) and try to connect it from college.

Or you can do what pickarooney said, get someone to accept the teamviewer connection at home.

coastwatch

+1 for Teamviewer.

Register an account with teamviewer and set it up on your home PC with a premanent password and to autologin at startup.

Run / login to teamviewer and your home PC will appear as a connection in your "partner list" . You can even run TV from an iphone.

Hope that helps

Naikon

ssh -X?

Mycroft H

http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/XoverSSH/X-over-SSH2.html

http://www.math.toronto.edu/admin/ssh.html


SSH over port 443 should do the trick. 443 is usually open cos its used for HTTPs

Jonathan

Naikon wrote: »

ssh -X -C?

Fixed your post.

X tunnelling is only really workable on LAN when uncompressed.

Naikon

Jonathan wrote: »

Fixed your post.

X tunnelling is only really workable on LAN when uncompressed.

True dat.