I need to occasionally access a couple of Linux (Ubuntu) machines which are several hundred miles away. They both sit on the same broadband router network.
A couple of years ago, before The Enlightenment, these were Windows machines and could easily be accessed using LogMeIn, which seems to easily (and worryingly) sail through routers, firewalls and all manner of security obstructions to allow full access to remote desktops. However, Linux seems a good deal more secure and LogMeIn have so far not produced a version that can provide access to Linux desktops. I've had a look around and can see that it's fairly straightforward to set up permissions on a remote machine to allow access, using the Remote Desktop utility. The bit that seems more difficult is at the other end. Finding an application that can establish the remote connection, find it's way through a router (which may have a dynamic IP address) and then connect to the right machine seems tricky. I suppose that using something like DynDNS would overcome the IP addressing problem, but as for the rest of the solution, I'm still scratching my head. Ideally, I'd like to find something with a straightforward GUI interface, which doesn't require a Phd in astrophysics to set up. Has anyone ever set up such a system, and if so, could you give me an idea of what app to use and how to set it up? _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
