On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:54 pm, Grant wrote: > I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to > bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to > connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my apps through there > from Internet cafes. What do you guys think might work? > > Also, I'm a little paranoid of keystroke loggers in Internet cafes. I was > wondering if anyone has created any kind of an application to solve that > problem. Maybe an on-screen representation of a keyboard that allows you > to save your "click-strokes" to the clipboard? > > - Grant
Okay, here's what I do. The machine I am connecting to, which is in my home office, is set behind a firewall that is forwarding port 22 for ssh connections. Then I run vncserver with fluxbox as the window manager. I then carry in my briefcase, a mini cd that has a windows ssh client and the windows and linux vncviewer. I use PuTTy for the windows ssh client. It is free and very easy to use.
From whatever computer I am at that has Internet access (Windows or Linux), I
can set up an ssh session that forwards the vnc port to the local machine,
and then I use the vncviewer through the ssh tunnel to access my desktop.
In fact, this is how I am typing this email right now. When the rules say you
cannot access personal e-mail at work, us Linux users have an advantage ;-)
Could you provide specifics about command options you use to establish this connection?
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