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<DIV></DIV>I installed Cygwin and could not figure out how to get remote desktop working.<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from "Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@DRAKE.EDU>: -------------- <BR><BR><BR>> What type of access do you need? A terminal window, or a full X session, <BR>> or something else? For just a terminal window, i'd recommend <BR>> downloading PuTTY (Google for "putty" and it should be in the first 2 <BR>> hits) and using it to SSH to your Linux box. You'll need to make sure <BR>> your Linux box has a routable IP, or forward the SSH port (TCP/22) from <BR>> a routable IP to the Linux box. <BR>> <BR>> X is a bit more complicated; i've never needed to go from MS Windows to <BR>> X Windows. There are projects such as Cygwin that will let you set up <BR>> an X server on Windows and then from there you'd be able to connect to <BR>> the Linux box and run applications. A possibly easier solution would be <BR>> to run VNC on the Linux
box and then connect from Windows with a VNC <BR>> viewer. I've done that before, though with Linux or OS X as the client <BR>> rather than Windows. It gives you a full desktop, and is much more <BR>> responsive than X over SSH. To use VNC to go from one Linux box to <BR>> another, get SSH working, then on the server do "vncserver :2 -geometry <BR>> 1024x768 -depth 8" and on the client "vncviewer -via <SERVER hostname><BR>> localhost:1". When done you can stop the server with "vncserver <BR>> -kill :1" on the server. I would think that using Windows as the client <BR>> would be similar, though the client command may differ slightly. <BR>> <BR>> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 08:01, David Stout wrote: <BR>> >I would like to access my Linux box from work. At home I am running <BR>> > SuSe 10.1 with a linksys router. At work I am on Win XP Pro. What is <BR>> > the best way to accomplish this. Do I need to forward any ports? <BR>> > <BR
>> >David Stout <BR>> >Systems Programmer <BR>> >Regency Homes <BR>> > <BR>> >--------------------------------- <BR>> >Do you Yahoo!? <BR>> > Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ <BR>> Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University <BR>> Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave <BR>> +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> Cialug mailing list <BR>> Cialug@cialug.org <BR>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug </BLOCKQUOTE>
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