Go to MY PC...

[jack jackson]

John, "Challenging" was the correct term. I spent the last three hours
miscegenating with cygwin on bloody Windows. Don't get me wrong,
Windows is not the problem, it's that I don't know how to use it (not
that I'm all so expert in Linux either, but...). I successfully
installed cygwin, and when I got that going I tried to install VNC,
which told me it needed Open SSH, which told me it needed Perl, so I
downloaded those, and then THEY told me that they needed a C Compiler,
so I downloaded one of THOSE and then...........It's like FreeBSD 0.9
over here and I'm on a Windows machine. .

Surely I cannot be the only person in the world who wants a secure
remote desktop connection to a windows machine from a Linux box so I
can administer the former whilst on the latter! Can it really be this
difficult? Is there no binary package, some exe or two or three which
does this?

Does anyone know if RealVNC server, the personal edition, will be on
speaking terms with a vnc client on ubuntu? Or any other ideas?

Thanks!




On 6/8/05, John Kirkland <mailinglists at ionlists.co.uk> wrote:
> Jack Jackson wrote:
> > Tom Adelstein wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:17 -0400, Jack Jackson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'm looking for a linux package which will allow me to remove expensive
> >>>and proprietary GotoMyPC from my dad's machine. I'd like to be able to
> >>>put a client on his machine which will let me ssh into his windows
> >>>machine and see his dekstop from mine.
> >>>I have looked at VNC and frankly gotten highly confused at how it is
> >>>supposed to work. Can anyone either explain it or offer another client
> >>>which is invisible to the Windows user once installed but allows me to
> >>>get in securely and administrate the windows XP box ?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Is it Windows XP Home edition or Pro?
> >>
> >>That makes a difference.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Glad to know it! It's Home edition, SP2.. Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >
> In which case, IIRC, there's no remote desktop facility in the Home
> Edition, so TightVNC might be your best bet. I'm not sure how secure it
> is. It's ages since I used it.
> 
> For security, you'd need to tunnel through using SSH to the Windows box,
> which, without installing Cygwin (or the cut-down SSH server version),
> can be challenging. I do this all the time from work to my Windows
> things at home, but I have a debian box acting as a gateway to the rest
> of my home network (and its installed SSH server!), so this isn't a problem.
> 
> HTH
> 
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