since my course im on atm is comming to an end i have more time on my hands so i thought i would use this time to set up a linux box to try things out and get a bit of experiance with linux using my old pc. First off, i only have 1 monitor, and i would rather not buy a KVM switch as i dont realy have the money, so i heared about VNC, that will allow me to remotly controll the box over a lan using my current pcs monitor/mouse/keyboard. my first question is, is it possible to get it so when i start up the pc that will have ubuntu on it that itll automaticaly run the needed vnc stuff, because if i have to manualy swap the keyboard/mouse/monitor each time i boot up the pc to start the vnc program, it would jsut be too much hassle.
secondly, if i can get all that working so when i boot the pc it autopmaticaly runs the vnc software so i can controll it from my main pc, the vnc website says that the free version lacks file transfering? does this mean i wont be able to share a folder on my windows pc and open that folder on the ubuntu machine and transfer across the file?(thats even if a linux machine can even see/access a windows shared folder).
secondly, if i can get all that working so when i boot the pc it autopmaticaly runs the vnc software so i can controll it from my main pc, the vnc website says that the free version lacks file transfering? does this mean i wont be able to share a folder on my windows pc and open that folder on the ubuntu machine and transfer across the file?(thats even if a linux machine can even see/access a windows shared folder).
