connecting from school pc to dorm pc

dukie · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 6

It's kinda hard for me to word this question to properly search for it and it probably was alrready asked someway or another but I want to connect to my gentoo pc in my dorm from my win2k machine in computer lab at school. I'm not quite a noob with linux in general but doing networking and remote access. Whats the best way to do it and is it possible to use the gui efficiently. thanks alot.
dukie

here are sketchy specs of the two machines in question.

dorm pc:
athlon 1800xp
768mb pc2700
Gentoo 1.4rc2 dualing with win2k

lab pc:
PIII-1ghz
512mb ddr
win2k

Lnx_dork · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 28

The best way to connect to your you linux box from the win2k machince is ssh. I like putty for win2k the best. The putty.exe is small enough to fit on a disk since some labs use very restrictive settings about downloading stuff to the HD.

If you want to do remote desktop stuff too, then emerge tightvnc and set that up on your gentoo box. Then you can set up putty to do port forwarding for the vnc session so that it is secure. You can download tightvnc viewer for windows as well, or you can use the java part in tightcvnc and connect to your desktop in any internet browser.

Check the gentoo security guide for setting up ssh, and there are plenty of posts on portforwarding and vnc stuff in the forums

Hope this helps

dukie · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 6

cool, Im going to have to read up then. It's probably easier than it looks, but Im probably gonna kill it. hehe. thanks though for the info.

dukie

dukie · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 6

Okay, I figured out that kde3.1 has the builtin krfd and I can log in using vcnview from a win2k pc. the only problem is that I can't do anything but look at the screen, ex, I can't open, or move anything else or do any othe manipulation on the desktop. I've set to let to allow univited to control desktop but it still won't let me do anything. is there anything Im missing here? probably. thanks again

digitalnick · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject:

just emerge vnc then run vncserver on the gentoo box

and make sure when you connect to the box youir not using the listen view only ... there is another viewer that allowss controll you may be using the wrong client

dukie · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 6

ok check. got it going. i can use the new X session, but I want to copy my current kde login. how can I go about using vncserver to do that. so far so good. thanks again for the help

digitalnick · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:15 pm Post subject:

copy your current kde login? can you please clarify

abhishek · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:31 pm Post subject:

dukie · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 6

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******copy your current kde login? can you please clarify******

what i meant was that I want to use an existing x session using kde, to use vnc with and log into that instead of a new x session. does that help a bit?

In other words, for example I open up openoffice file Im working on. when I go to class I wanna log in and edit it.

PowerFactor · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:30 am Post subject:

I believe for that you need x0rfbserver. I've never used it so I dont know how well it works.

dukie · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 6

interesting, can anybody give more info on this? Sounds intriging. thanks

jimmybfan · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 2:36 am Post subject:

As far as i konw you cannot set up a vncsercer to use the current desktop. You should be able to do what you want with the remote desktop feature in kde 3.1. Just make sure you have the Allow univited connetions to control the desktop box checked in the remote desktop setuip in the kde control panel. I've been using it for a while with no problems.