[Wolves] Best way to remote manage a ubuntu system

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 09:05 +0000, Peter Cannon wrote:
> Andy Jewell wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Just a small point that everyone has missed. Unless your parents (Remote Host) has
> what's know as a fixed IP you will need them to (Potentially) give you their IP on
> each and every connection.
> 
> This is because most people have what's known as a dynamic address e.g. it changes
> if they switch the router off unlike some of us show off's who have fixed IP's. :-)
> 
Again not with the empathy method as it nat's out from your machine
setting up a direct link with the other machine.  Hence it being the
simplest method :)

That is why I recommended it :)


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