Remote access

PaulStat · 11 Nov 2009 at 11:00

Hi Folks,

I'm planning on building a linux box that will be on 24/7, I'd like to be able to control it remotely (desktop control aswell as terminal etc.) from my Vista laptop.

I know of VNC (can that be installed on Linux?) but can you have it so that the server service starts up on boot instead of when you login? This is so that I can have the linux box sitting on the logon screen at home, and then when I want to access it from work for instance I can just connect and logon and take control of the desktop.

What do I need in order to do this?

Thanks,
Paul

tntcoder · 11 Nov 2009 at 11:41

Give FreeNX a try. I know its faster than VNC and when I used it it never required a logon to be active, you just set the daemon to execute on boot and you're done.

Good guide to freenx, technical install/config stuff is about half way through.

You could also use SSH XForwarding, lots of tutorials around on how to configure that.

PaulStat · 11 Nov 2009 at 13:24

Thanks I'll give that a go, looks useful

KIA · 12 Nov 2009 at 02:12

You can set VNC to start at boot and tunnel it over SSH.

MikeHunt79 · 12 Nov 2009 at 02:26

Another vote for FreeNX, works a treat for me, allows me to access an Ubuntu rig remotely from both Windows XP and OSX.

My top tip would be to make sure you've got the users set up properly.

PaulStat · 18 Nov 2009 at 15:55

MikeHunt79 said:
My top tip would be to make sure you've got the users set up properly.

what do you mean by that?