Remote control of desktop

[Michael Hirsch]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Lance DeVooght <cyborghunter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to be able to remotely login to her laptop and control her desktop.
> That way I can fix any problems she runs into, such as the need to install
> a new application. I could also use it to walk her through any operation
> that she is unfamiliar with.

I do this all the time.  I have a dyndns address for my home system.
I have the laptop ssh to my home system and do a remote forward.  You
can do it on the ssh commandline, or put it in your .ssh/config file
like I do:
Host home
     User myuser
     Hostname my.dyndns.address
     RemoteForward 2222 localhost:22
so now when I connect to port 2222 on my home machine it ends up going
to port 22 on my laptop.

For your mom you'd probably want to forward to her VNC port which is
5900, I think.

So you'd want to create a script for you mom that starts a VNC server
in the background, then ssh's to your home system and port forwards
from your home port 5900 to her port 5900.  Create a desktop icon for
this script so she just has to click it.

Then after she does that, you would vnc to localhost:0 which would get
forward3ed to her vnc server and voila!  You are controlling her
desktop.

HTH,

Michael