<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Kris Douglas <kris@softdel.co.uk><br>To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Monday, 10 December, 2007 1:22:09 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Hamachi<br><br><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Goodwin</b> <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david@codepoets.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:david@codepoets.co.uk">david@codepoets.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Mo Awkati wrote :<br>> > What I need is to be able to either do VPN or VNC successfully to<br>> > support those I help with their PC, particularly Ubuntu users. Any
<br>> > suggestions as to what I can use without too many problems for either<br>> > me or the users that I am trying to help?<br>><br>><br>> openvpn?<br>><br>> or the fog creek copilot thing?<br>
><br>><br>><br>> Hi David<br>><br>> I'll have a look at openvpn<br>><br>> what is the "fog creek copilot thing"! I don't want to vpn to Heathrow's controllers! :-)<br><br><br>
Google will reveal all - copilot, is I believe, a vnc implementation<br>that doesn't suffer from firewall problems as there's a "middleman"<br>reachable by both parties. From what I've heard, it's supposed to be
<br>very easy to use.<br><br>David.<br><br>--<br>David Goodwin<br><br>[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]<br>[ <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.codepoets.co.uk">http://www.codepoets.co.uk</a> ]<br><br>_______________________________________________
<br>Wolves LUG mailing list<br>Homepage: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/">http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/</a><br>Mailing list: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk">Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Mailing list home:
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Do you really need to use a vpn, if you want to provide remote support you can install a dynamic DNS client like NO-IP (
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://no-ip.com">no-ip.com</a> easy support and stable on linux- wget no-ip) and just connect to their machiens directly, as VPN is a very slow system for VNC access. And SSH works over no-ip too... Just my thoughts there.
<br clear="all"><br><br><br><br>I will give that a go as well, as I need to make sure I can support these people.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mo<br> </div><br><br><br><br><br></div></div><br>
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