Advice: Best Remote Desktop?

I would like to set up a linux server that I could access remotely and
get much if not all of the same functionality I would if I were
actually sitting at the machine.

At the moment, SSH is getting the job done, but I'd also like to, for
example, use a graphical web browser among other things.

I'm rather new to the "desktop linux" world, though I have plenty of
shell experience. I'm just hoping you folks could save me a good amount
of trial and error by giving a few recommendations.

Thanks!

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I would like to set up a linux server that I could access remotely and
> get much if not all of the same functionality I would if I were
> actually sitting at the machine.
>
> At the moment, SSH is getting the job done, but I'd also like to, for
> example, use a graphical web browser among other things.

Whatever for? Can't you just run a web browser on your own machine?

A couple of options suggest themselves:

* VNC
* Running an X server on your workstation (Cygwin has one for Windows) then
running apps over the X protocol tunneled through ssh.

Google should tell you most about both options.

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In comp.os.linux.networking David Dorward <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>> I would like to set up a linux server that I could access remotely and
>> get much if not all of the same functionality I would if I were
>> actually sitting at the machine.
>>
>> At the moment, SSH is getting the job done, but I'd also like to, for
>> example, use a graphical web browser among other things.

> Whatever for? Can't you just run a web browser on your own machine?

> A couple of options suggest themselves:

> * VNC
> * Running an X server on your workstation (Cygwin has one for Windows) then
> running apps over the X protocol tunneled through ssh.

> Google should tell you most about both options.

What about the most obvious, installing Linux?

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I would like to set up a linux server that I could access remotely and
> get much if not all of the same functionality I would if I were
> actually sitting at the machine.
>
> At the moment, SSH is getting the job done, but I'd also like to, for
> example, use a graphical web browser among other things.
>
> I'm rather new to the "desktop linux" world, though I have plenty of
> shell experience. I'm just hoping you folks could save me a good amount
> of trial and error by giving a few recommendations.

Linux is designed for this. As long as you can reach a computer with a
network, you can run apps or even the entire desktop remotely. You might
want to look at VNC.

Sure, but my home machine isn't behind that terrible netnanny websense.
Plus a little paranoia never hurt, right? Don't want the boss reading
what I'm reading.

Anyhow, thanks for the advice! I'll have to look into VNC, but at the
moment, I'm leaning towards the cygwin solution since i'd imagine it'd
be the quickest to get up and running.

This is a work machine and, thus, we're not allowed to install
applications. Which doesn't necessarily stop me, but I think they'd
notice if I went and wiped a whoel harddrive and installed linux.

Knoppix is an option, but much of what I do at work involves a novell
network and a few proprietary windows apps, so I'd rather just keep one
machine running with a remote desktop session of some kind.

So VNC and ssh/cygwin have been suggested... what do you folks suppose
would be the least intrusive to my work machine? That is... what method
would involve me installing the least amount of software?

In comp.os.linux.networking (E-Mail Removed):
> This is a work machine and, thus, we're not allowed to install
> applications. Which doesn't necessarily stop me, but I think they'd
> notice if I went and wiped a whoel harddrive and installed linux.

> Knoppix is an option, but much of what I do at work involves a novell
> network and a few proprietary windows apps, so I'd rather just keep one
> machine running with a remote desktop session of some kind.

> So VNC and ssh/cygwin have been suggested... what do you folks suppose
> would be the least intrusive to my work machine? That is... what method
> would involve me installing the least amount of software?

Sorry, dunno. Usually first thing with a new "work machine" is
simply installing Linux, for productivity reasons. Anyway, you
could install Linux on another box and use tsclient + rdesktop to
login to the doze box, so you don't need to install anything
there.

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il Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:33:53 -0700, johnhutch ha scriito:

> So VNC and ssh/cygwin have been suggested... what do you folks suppose
> would be the least intrusive to my work machine? That is... what method
> would involve me installing the least amount of software?

no one has talked about nomachine nx server ....
it didn't need more opened ports (work throught ssh) and it's much much
faster than x/vnc,works like terminal server under windows (save and
restore sessions,not the actual display shown) and the last verison
supports even use printers attached to the client side .... I think you
have to try it or you don't believe me ;-)

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/freenx/

is a free implementation,look at nomachine.com for the client.

bye.

On 28 Jun 2005 10:07:42 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

WinSCP is useful for accessing a Linux server from a windows box.
Makes it easy to browse around and edit files. I find the combination
of ssh and WinSCP all that you need.

You could also look at webmin, but I personally don't care for it.

Dan


>I would like to set up a linux server that I could access remotely and
>get much if not all of the same functionality I would if I were
>actually sitting at the machine.
>
>At the moment, SSH is getting the job done, but I'd also like to, for
>example, use a graphical web browser among other things.
>
>I'm rather new to the "desktop linux" world, though I have plenty of
>shell experience. I'm just hoping you folks could save me a good amount
>of trial and error by giving a few recommendations.
>
>Thanks!