[GRLUG] GRCC and Linux [was "Linux @ school."]

[Michael Mol]

It's easier than that.  Just use the plain VNC and SSH binaries--no
install required.

putty -L 5900:yourip:5900 userid at yourip
vnc localhost:5900

On 9/28/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/28/06, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Tim, if you have a Linux box accessible through the Internet, try
> > using SSH+VNC.  For years, that was the best way for me to get my
> > Linux fix.  Now I just carry around a Linux laptop.
>
> Oh...  no...  I've certainly used several different methods to work on
> machines of my own at home (SSH, X over SSH, NX, etc.) in various
> creative ways...  On one machine, I couldn't install the NX client
> (Windows admins love to disallow installing software), and didn't have
> my USB flash drive, so I fired up VMWare, and NX'd from a VMWare
> instance to my home machine to use it.  Using your computer at home,
> over the net, from within a virtual machine, running on a physical
> machine is just ridiculous.
>
> --tim
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