[Wolves] Best way to remote manage a ubuntu system

[Kris Douglas]

2010/1/20 Andy Jewell <Andy.Jewell at sysmicro.co.uk>:
> Hi Parminder,
>
> If you can't get Kris's suggestion to work,  you may still be able to get "Remote Desktop Viewer" working (VNC under the hood):
>
> You need the following:
>
> 1) Get their IP address. Often this is their router, and if so, you'd need to port forward 5800, 5900, 5500 and/or 5801, 5901, 5501 on the router to their internal address.
> 2) They need to enable "Allow other users to view your desktop" in System>Preferences>Remote Desktop. Make sure you set a password.
> 3) You then use "Remote Desktop Viewer" to login to their machine. Don't forget to disable "Allow other users to view your desktop" on your way out, for security reasons.
>
> I also believe that "Log Me In" can work with Linux machines, but have no experience with this.

Was Dave's idea, but I've tried this before, its very hard to talk
this through to someone who has no idea what's going on.

Dave, that zero configuration setup sounds cool.. I'm gonna have to
check that out!

-- 
Kris Douglas