Alan, Alan Pope wrote:
> No, you ssh to her, forwarding port 5900 from your desktop to hers. Then > you use rdesktop to view localhost:5900 and you get her desktop because > ssh forwards those packets down the tunnel to her machine. Works well, I > do this when I want to administer my brothers computer. This is brilliant as I've been wondering how best to do this for a while! Trying it out locally on my own machine, I have to use vncviewer rather than rdesktop, but I got a window on my desktop showing my desktop! It was very confusing! >> One of my reasons for putting Linux on this machine rather than Windows, >> was as she had no experience what so ever it didn't matter what system I >> gave her, and as Linux is easier to administer remotely, I went for that. >> > > I came to the same conclusion when making the computer for my brother. Great minds and all that:-) Thanks for you help. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
