<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> David Pashley wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20070129134909.GP20097@femme.catnip.org.uk" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Jan 29, 2007 at 12:46, James Tuthill praised the llamas by saying: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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, </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">If you want to see exactly what they are seeing, you can investigate VNC. If you just want to be able to run a gui application, you can run ssh -X user@host and then start the gui app at the command line. For this to work you need to make sure that they have the xauth package installed and that you have uncommented the line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that says: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 and restarted sshd</pre> </blockquote> Hi David, Thanks, I will a play around with that approach :) What I am really looking for a gui. With a screen with one text field and button that says: Emails Address of helper: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:james@heisgoingtohelp.com">james@heisgoingtohelp.com</a> [button which sends a invitation for remote desktop] This way they can send me all the details of their host, such as ipaddress etc. Otherwise, I have to get them to open the terminal and type in ifconfig command, then read some numbers from a screen they don't understand, then open up the email client. This is always hard to explain and makes things over complicated. Any ideas? or do you think I should suggest it to the gnome / vino people? Cheerio, James </body> </html>