Re: remote admin

2005-04-15 Thread Peter
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:02 -0500, Eric Bambach wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Eric Bambach wrote: > > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration > > > but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. > > > > Getting a GUI interface for

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread J.
nux or ?? Again some more info with his question would produce better answers like someone already pointed out in a previous reply. > and are there any you can actually recommend to a beginner (this is a > list where *beginners* ask questions, after all)? Well, what is a beginner.. ? Differen

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Bambach
On Thursday 14 April 2005 12:14 pm, J. wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Eric Bambach wrote: > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration but It lacks the > > ability to give you a GUI interface. > > What ? Search for SSH GUI and google returns +770,000 matches.. ! Other > than that it ca

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Bambach
On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Eric Bambach wrote: > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration > > but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. > > Getting a GUI interface for ssh is easy. Simply start > ssh from an xterm, login to the remote

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread qwms-avib
Eric Bambach wrote: > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration > but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. Getting a GUI interface for ssh is easy. Simply start ssh from an xterm, login to the remote server and execute xterm. This will cause a remote xterm to appe

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
t-cache", that is, on Debian Unstable), using what I think of as obvious, beginner-level searching strategies. And your suggested Google search didn't prove profitable. So where are they, and are there any you can actually recommend to a beginner (this is a list where *beginners* ask que

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread J.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Eric Bambach wrote: > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration but It lacks the > ability to give you a GUI interface. What ? Search for SSH GUI and google returns +770,000 matches.. ! Other than that it can be used to encrypt just about any connection, like f

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:40 AM 4/14/2005 -0500, Eric Bambach wrote: Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. [...] This not *quite* correct. ssh can be used to tunnel another service, one that provides a GUI (for example, VNC, or even remote X sessi

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Bambach
Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. SSH Is quick and dirty remote administration and comes standard (or should ) on all Unix variants. (openssh.com) TightVNC is a rather "unrobust" remote X server but it gets the job done.

RE: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Little, Chris
Details . . . details . . . . details . . . . -Original Message- From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:26 AM To: linux Subject: Re: remote admin At 10:39 PM 4/14/2005 -0700, S. Barret Dolph wrote: >I would like to be able to do some ad

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:39 PM 4/14/2005 -0700, S. Barret Dolph wrote: I would like to be able to do some admin stuff on our school computers from home. What is best way to do this? Are programs such as "Webmin" better than remote logins or just different. The administrative tasks are usually more school administrati

remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread S. Barret Dolph
I would like to be able to do some admin stuff on our school computers from home. What is best way to do this? Are programs such as "Webmin" better than remote logins or just different. The administrative tasks are usually more school administration than computer administration but not always ju