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Re: Ubuntu Remote Desktop

  • 14-02-2011 03:05PM
    #1
    PDD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭


    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


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  • #2
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,236 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    PDD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭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.


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,236 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    VampiricPadraig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    coastwatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭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


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  • #7
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    ssh -X?


  • #8
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭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


  • #9
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,314 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Naikon wrote: »
    ssh -X -C?
    Fixed your post. ;)

    X tunnelling is only really workable on LAN when uncompressed.


  • #10
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Jonathan wrote: »
    Fixed your post. ;)

    X tunnelling is only really workable on LAN when uncompressed.

    True dat.


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