[Wolves] Best way to remote manage a ubuntu system

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 18:20 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:
> 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!
> 
It is.  you need empathy though rather than pidgin.  This is one of the
reasons that Ubuntu went with empathy over pidgin from Karmic on.