[Wolves] Remote Assistance

Baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Sun Mar 13 22:17:13 GMT 2005




On 13/3/05 7:54 pm, "Tim Humpherson" <tim.humpherson at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I know there is a remote assistance for Linux user to another Linux
> user by remote, but is it possible for a Linux OS to initiate a remote
> assistance to 'assist' with someone who is running on XP?
> 
> I'm sure one of you may have tried that on your XP (some of you do use
> it from time to time, come on, admit it!). It is very useful.  I have
> assisted with many other friends of mine, using this method.  Saves me
> petrol & time.  Can "fix" anyone's problems even if they live far
> away.
> 
> Now, like I said earlier, would it be possible to do that with LINUX
> <--> XP?  If not, would WINE or SAMBA do the trick?

Weird you should post that. I've just had to install windows on a spare box
to de-pest my sister-in-law's puter tonight via remote. It'd be -really-
nice if there was a linux to xp way of doing that.


Baza





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