I am a lurker as well, Chelsey :)<div><br></div><div>The included Remote Desktop tools in Gnome seem to work pretty well for me. It really is just VNC.</div><div><br></div><div>Make sure you poke a hole in her router and forward the port to her machine though so you can connect from outside of her network (I hope she is behind a router).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is it hot today or what?</div><div><br></div><div>Todd<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chelsey Twigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darth.indy@gmail.com">darth.indy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I haven't ever used it, but I found this article: <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/kubuntu/enable-remote-desktop-vnc-on-kubuntu/" target="_blank">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/kubuntu/enable-remote-desktop-vnc-on-kubuntu/</a><br>
<br>I'm usually a GNOME person m'self, so I've not had any experience with any KDE differences. I am, however, free tech support to all family and friends that use Ubuntu, and most of them live out-of-state<br>
<br>Also, for smaller problems that you know can be solved by a command or two, if you're able to IM with her, it's really easy to just have her copy/paste the commands and run them. Once you get them past the initial fear of the command line, it makes things so much easier than remote desktop, or "OK, click here... Then there..." I've been putting together a bash script, actually, for friends to run on new installs, to install Medibuntu, updates, and favorite tools.<br>
<br>Hope that helps!<br><br>P.S. I've been lurking on the list for a few months but never chipped in. So hi everyone!<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Wolfger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wolfger@gmail.com" target="_blank">wolfger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">Hey guys and gals. I've recently inducted a non-computer-geek into the<br>
realm of Ubuntu users. She doesn't live too far away, which is why I<br>
agreed to give her tech support gratis (hey... I *really* wanted to<br>
rid the world of another virus-laden XP box!), but it would be much<br>
easier if I could give support from the convenience of my home.<br>
<br>
So... Does anybody here have experience setting this up? What tools<br>
(preferably on the KDE side) are good for this? How complicated will<br>
it be to do?<br>
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