[mdlug] Remotely Use Linux

[Aaron Kulkis]

Kristoffer Marshall wrote:
> Was: "A big opportunity for Linux?"
> 
> I've set up VNC manually before, and I have run a free X client in 
> Windows to spit out stuff from my X server over the network through a 
> SSH session (works very fast, forgot what the software was called). By 
> far the easiest solution I have come across is NoMachine 
> (www.nomachine.com). You set it up on the linux box as the server, throw 
> in an IP address or hostname on your Windows client, and it works. The 
> "NX Free Edition" for linux (from what I remember) is a server and 
> client package, which you will install on your linux box. Then you get 
> the Windows client (also free) to connect to the server. The only 
> problems I've had with it were when I was trying to connect to Oakand 
> University's server with the newest client. When I set it up at home 
> though, using the newest version on both computers worked pretty well. 
> It's basically an easy to set up VNC, with a lot of options for 
> compression and whatnot. Just read the documentation and everything 
> should be fine. It's pretty darn fast over the Internet. I just wish 
> that it wouldn't create a new X server session. I'd like to use the 
> current running session, but I haven't seen anything like that for linux.
> 
> Now if only there was a LogMeIn server for linux (www.logmein.com). I 
> love that stuff.

Until some #(%*&^#% figures out how to hijack a logmein.com
packet stream, and use it to create even more spam-bot networks.
UGH!