[Ltsp-discuss] Remote Desktop From Haiti

2005-03-17 Thread Jason Ricci
I'm in Jeremie, Haiti setting up a satellite internet connection and computer lab at a local school. I'd like to be able to remotely administer each of the machines in the lab from the US since there is nobody locally to do it. The satellite modem's IP is dynamic, and each of the machines on the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Remote Desktop From Haiti

2005-03-17 Thread Gudmund Areskoug
Hi Jason, Jason Ricci wrote: I'm in Jeremie, Haiti setting up a satellite internet connection and computer lab at a local school. I'd like to be able to remotely administer each of the machines in the lab from the US since there is nobody locally to do it. The satellite modem's IP is dynamic, and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Remote Desktop From Haiti

2005-03-17 Thread Timothy Legge
Gudmund Areskoug wrote: Perhaps things like this could be something as a step along the way? http://myip.us/ Or set the machine(s) up to automatically send you an (e. g. encrypted) mail with its/their current IP, perhaps with a script? This must have been done before... You might check what

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Remote Desktop From Haiti

2005-03-17 Thread Chris Thomas
Lots of routers have a dyndns.org client built-in. dyndns.org service is free. Then you won't have to worry about a software solution to give you a static host name. If your router doesn't have it built in, get the latest firmware and maybe it will be there. I would also install FreeNX on your

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Remote Desktop From Haiti

2005-03-17 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 12:25 -0400, Timothy Legge wrote: Gudmund Areskoug wrote: Perhaps things like this could be something as a step along the way? http://myip.us/ Or set the machine(s) up to automatically send you an (e. g. encrypted) mail with its/their current IP, perhaps with a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Remote Desktop From Haiti

2005-03-17 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
I'm in Jeremie, Haiti setting up a satellite internet connection and computer lab at a local school. I'd like to be able to remotely administer each of the machines in the lab from the US since there is nobody locally to do it. The satellite modem's IP is dynamic, and each of the machines on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Remote Desktop From Haiti

2005-03-17 Thread Richard Bos
Op donderdag 17 maart 2005 21:10, schreef Dag Sverre Seljebotn: That gives you shell access. To get graphical access, you then need to set up some desktop remoting technology over the reverse SSH link - either NX/FreeNX or VNC (I think VNC is easier to set up). What about: ssh -R