VNC is just fine over a local network but I find to be so slow over the internet as to be unusable, even over DSL. Timbuktu eats its lunch over slow connections but you can't get that for linux. I've had to bite the bullet and learn how to use SSH, vi and FTP. You can control EVERYTHING from a console and it's much faster than any other method. For me it was a little scary at first and I felt like I was running blind but that went away. there is a learning curve as you will have to change config files by hand instead of through the graphical tools. Buy a good book that explains the config files, (I recommend 'linux network servers 24-7') and a command reference. Take notes when you do something so you have a cheat sheet the next time you do it (saves typing). I keep text files with the few commands I use, for example one to add a virtual web host, an other to check on my log files, etc. When you see how fast you can be with the old fashioned UNIX way of doing things you'll see why these guys are so fanatical about the command line. You can be there and make your change before VNC even paints the first screen. Get comfortable with SSH before you take the box over to the ISP. Have fun, Gavin on 9/16/00 7:22 AM, Ellick Chan wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Eric Mings wrote: > > > You probably seek VNC, from www.uk.research.att.com, once you get it > installed, run a 'vncserver' command on the server, and at your admin box, > type vncviewer <ip of server>:1. That should get you an X-session with twm > running. Edit the vncserver script to change the default window-manager to > something else, such as kde or gnome. Stay away from NFS, it is IP-based > authentication, and not difficult to spoof at all. > >> I recently posted the my problem below to the newbie list. However, I >> think it may be more likely I'll find an answer on this list. I >> wouldn't consider myself a newbie, though I am not an expert either. >> Probably in the vast waste land in between where I know just enough >> to be dangerous ;-) >> >> I have been trying to get a handle on how to remotely administer a >> linuxbox I would like to have colocated at my ISP. I have read howtos >> and minihowtos until my head is spinning. God what I wouldn't give >> for a simple Timbuktu like approach to this problem in linux. So far >> I have gotten ssh2 setup on both machines (which are current on my >> LAN and I'll call "local" and "remote"). I can use ssh to login from >> local to remote as root, which I would think is the first step. >> However, now the confusion begins. Ideally I would like to display a >> kde desktop on my local machine that reflects the remote machine. I >> have heard numerous times about people supposably doing this such >> that it works just like sitting in front of the remote machine (apart >> from bandwith delay in response). Both my machines are running >> mandrake 7. I will be using a cable modem to connect from the local >> to the remote machine at the isp. Could someone please tell me the >> concrete simple steps to get this working? >> >> I also gather that it might be useful (and much faster) to use NFS to >> mount the remote machine disk on my local machine, but I also get the >> impression that security in that approach is a big concern. Thoughts >> on this approach would also be appreciated! >> >> And yes, I already know about webmin as a partial solution, but it >> doesn't get close to what I would need to be able to do to make this >> practical for me. >> >> Thanks much for any advice! >>
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