[ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop

[David Pashley]

On Jan 29, 2007 at 13:49, David Pashley praised the llamas by saying:
> On Jan 29, 2007 at 12:46, James Tuthill praised the llamas by saying:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Ubuntu on around 8 friends and family machines all 
> > round the country. Until now I have never needed to provide remote 
> > desktop help but recently I wanted to do this.
> > 
> > Is there a program or a way for them to send their ip address and 
> > settings required for remote desktop to work via email. This would mean 
> > they could just click a button and send me the information and then I 
> > would be able to open up a link between. It might sound a bit simplistic 
> > but I from googling it, Windows has this functionality.
> > 
> > Or is a just a simple way of using remote desktop that I haven't figured 
> > out yet,
> > Thanks,
> > 
> If you want to see exactly what they are seeing, you can investigate
> VNC. 

Forgot to mention there is NX by Nomachina. Bits of it were nonfree, but
most of it was. I think there was some work to make a free version.

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David Pashley
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