From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 15:27:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rain.macguire.net (sense-sea-MegaSub-1-125.oz.net [216.39.144.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A811A37B428 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:27:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roo@localhost) by rain.macguire.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2BNOrx83375; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roo) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:24:53 -0800 From: Benjamin Krueger To: ScaryG Cc: Andre Elferink , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote Desktop Message-ID: <20020311152453.E77202@rain.macguire.net> References: <20020311224425.88381.qmail@web21309.mail.yahoo.com> <20020311175608.56f4577c.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020311175608.56f4577c.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>; from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu on Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:56:08PM -0500 X-PGP-Key: http://www.macguire.net/benjamin/public_key.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * ScaryG (freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) [020311 14:52]: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:44:25 -0800 (PST) > Andre Elferink wrote: > > > I am wondering if or rather how would I go about > > connecting to my home system (FreeBSD 4.5) from a Mac > > or PC (probibly running windows) over the internet... > > so basicly that i can bring up my home systems desktop > > like im sitting infront of it from a remote mac or > > pc.. or in simplest terms just do what "go2mypc" does. > > I would also suggest VNC... > > It's in the ports so you can easily compile it there. > > The VNC site also has downloads for Windoze. > > This address from Defcon1 should have everything you need to get going: > > http://www.defcon1.org/About_Us/News/Upcoming_Articles/CVS-Server/VNC-Server/vnc-server.html > > Be careful of the word wrapping.. > > You could always just go to www.defcon1.org and then just click the link > for VNC at the bottom right. > > Enjoy! > > -Gerry > Web Hosting // Primary & Secondary DNS Services > at http://www.interpool.ca Another tool you might consider is rdesktop, which is a remote desktop protocol client for accessing Windows NT Terminal servers. With this, you can access an NT4 or Win2k terminal server from an X desktop. Its incredibly useful and can be forwarded over an ssh tunnel. I use it at work constantly. http://www.rdesktop.org/ -- Benjamin Krueger "From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." - Groucho Marx ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message