I recently posted the my problem below to the newbie list. However, I think it may be more likely I'll find an answer on this list. I wouldn't consider myself a newbie, though I am not an expert either. Probably in the vast waste land in between where I know just enough to be dangerous ;-) I have been trying to get a handle on how to remotely administer a linuxbox I would like to have colocated at my ISP. I have read howtos and minihowtos until my head is spinning. God what I wouldn't give for a simple Timbuktu like approach to this problem in linux. So far I have gotten ssh2 setup on both machines (which are current on my LAN and I'll call "local" and "remote"). I can use ssh to login from local to remote as root, which I would think is the first step. However, now the confusion begins. Ideally I would like to display a kde desktop on my local machine that reflects the remote machine. I have heard numerous times about people supposably doing this such that it works just like sitting in front of the remote machine (apart from bandwith delay in response). Both my machines are running mandrake 7. I will be using a cable modem to connect from the local to the remote machine at the isp. Could someone please tell me the concrete simple steps to get this working? I also gather that it might be useful (and much faster) to use NFS to mount the remote machine disk on my local machine, but I also get the impression that security in that approach is a big concern. Thoughts on this approach would also be appreciated! And yes, I already know about webmin as a partial solution, but it doesn't get close to what I would need to be able to do to make this practical for me. Thanks much for any advice! -- Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
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