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Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

ollie — Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:12 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:12 am

Dutch_Master wrote:

ollie wrote:

It's "Downunder!" not back-to-front

So you read it upside-down?

Well, it would be upside down compared to the way you read it, basically the top points at the Southern Cross

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

Dutch_Master — Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:18 pm

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:18 pm

ollie wrote:

It's "Downunder!" not back-to-front

So you read it upside-down?

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

wyliecoyoteuk — Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:02 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:02 pm

How about Hamachi for linux?

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

ollie — Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:58 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:58 am

It's "Downunder!" not back-to-front

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

nelz — Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:45 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:45 am

Now if you'd started reading the magazine for the back you'd have got there much sooner

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

ollie — Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:03 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:03 am

OK, The Big Question, page 108 Remote Access using VNC

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

nelz — Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:10 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:10 pm

That's not it either

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

ollie — Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:46 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:46 am

nelz wrote:

I'm referring to something appearing in LXF129.

Page 69 - Hotpicks - Usermin, although you are probably better off installing using your distros package manager.

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

Weatherlawyer — Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:27 am

Author: Weatherlawyer

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:27 am

LeeNukes wrote:

You can also wait a while until I get Totally Remote developed.

Please hurry. I can't take it!

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

nelz — Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:32 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:32 pm

I'm referring to something appearing in LXF129.

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

Ram — Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:57 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:57 pm

nelz wrote:

You can use dyndns.org to give a fixed hostname to a dynamic IP address. Much of what you ask is covered in LXF129.

nelz... are you referring to the article " Remote Control for your home system", if so then it was LXF127.

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

phill — Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:48 pm

Author: phill

Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:48 pm

Thanks for the swift answers guys, LXF129 sounds great, I'll make sure I read it in detail, also totally remote could well be even easier

Phill

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

LeeNukes — Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:31 pm

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:31 pm

You can also wait a while until I get Totally Remote developed.

Re: Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

nelz — Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:10 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:10 pm

You can use dyndns.org to give a fixed hostname to a dynamic IP address. Much of what you ask is covered in LXF129.

Easy remote support. Idea for a tutorial?

phill — Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:15 am

Author: phill

Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:15 am

Hi there,

I'm looking for a simple way to provide a remote machine take over, via the internet.

Why? I have converted my dad's machine to Ubuntu, and I need to support it, but 4hrs drive each way to solve dumb questions is a little OTT.

I've been playing with linux for a while, at the (GUI level). I can follow "ho to's" to get stuff working, but am by no means a command line junky!

I read the latest remote access guides in the magazine, but a short way into the subject I was lost.

I've managed to get local remote access working, but as soon as you put a router and the web in the equation it's way to hard.

My (simple) vision is to have a program on the target machine run which authenticates to a server somewhere with it's IP address etc. Then from my home I run a program which collects the details and routes back to the target - a passwords later and away we go!

Of course this needs to be simple enough that I can talk my dad through loading the software himself, so no command lines - it's got to be idiot proof!

This would encourage me to load linux on more machines, as remote support is way way easier than sitting there with the user "helping"

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10

Thanks

Phill