[Wolves] Hamachi

[Mo Awkati]

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From: Kris Douglas <kris at softdel.co.uk>
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, 10 December, 2007 1:22:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Hamachi




On 09/12/2007, David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk> wrote:
Mo Awkati wrote :
> > What I need is to be able to either do VPN or VNC successfully to
> > support those I help with their PC, particularly Ubuntu users. Any

> > suggestions as to what I can use without too many problems for either
> > me or the users that I am trying to help?
>
>
> openvpn?
>
> or the fog creek copilot thing?

>
>
>
> Hi David
>
> I'll have a look at openvpn
>
> what is the "fog creek copilot thing"!  I don't want to vpn to Heathrow's controllers! :-)



Google will reveal all - copilot, is I believe, a vnc implementation
that doesn't suffer from firewall problems as there's a "middleman"
reachable by both parties. From what I've heard, it's supposed to be

very easy to use.

David.

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David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]

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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 (
no-ip.com 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.





I will give that a go as well, as I need to make sure I can support these people.

Cheers

Mo
 









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