On Tuesday 31 May 2005 09:01, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Just to let you all know that I am reading all this and coming to some > choices, need to actually do things tomorrow night. > > All the replies have been helpful and it appears that I will be setting > things up temp for this OE and then looking at something as suggested by > et. > > Am still reading and have found a helpful site to learn some basics. > www.portfordward.com > > Mind. I'm off to read about Tight-VNC so may well find this out along > the way. > > UPDATE: Have found the TightVNC site and am getting mind blow ( and > loving it ). > > It seems that I may need to consider openssh and I must have played with > things at one time because it appears that the server and client stuff > is already installed. SNIP > > Have downloaded the rpms for tightvnc, so they're ready to install. > > Mind, this is where I must plan a little, is tightvnc included with any > LiveCD,s ( hopefully MandrivaMove ) ? > > Or should I abandon this train of thought for now ? [ 2000hrs Kiwi time > ~ coffee required ] > > Please keep the suggestions coming, they are greatly appreciated.
While TightVNC works very well locally, I think you will find it is unusable remotely unless you have access to quite a LOT of bandwidth (1Mb plus) In my experience port forwarding with ssh is a lot better because you only need the bandwidth for a single window, not an entire desktop. Also port forwarding is a lot easier to set up and use. In fact no set up is required. It will work "out of the box", Just install openssh-server and then ssh in with a linux client and start your applications in the ssh terminal. The down side of port forwarding is if your remote client is a Windows computer you will need an X Windowing system running on it as well as an ssh client. (There is a free X windowing system for Windows but I forget its name) You will find KDE based applications are a LOT slower over ssh (or VNC) than their equivalents. To be honest IMO the suggestion of keeping your personal files on a USB flash stick and using a LiveCD would give you the optimal experience. I would recommend PCLOS www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html as the live CD distro since you can set it up to use a Flash USB stick as your /home, then Squirrelmail would give you access to your mail server (if you have one) kio_fish is an excellent way to gain access to your remote files if you need them without the bandwidth requirement of VNC or port forwarding http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/kio_fish.html BTW: If you are going to allow ssh to be used over the Internet you should at least use a strong password or else you will get hacked. Preferably you should use ssh keys so only authorised clients are permitted to connect to the ssh server. There is an excellent article on ssh security written by Vincent Danen which is alas no longer available other than in Google's cache here http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:D2iGdSh6vZQJ:www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php+mandrakesecure+making+most+ssh&hl=en HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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