On Jan 29, 2007 at 12:46, James Tuthill praised the llamas by saying: > Hi, > > I have installed Ubuntu on around 8 friends and family machines all > round the country. Until now I have never needed to provide remote > desktop help but recently I wanted to do this. > > Is there a program or a way for them to send their ip address and > settings required for remote desktop to work via email. This would mean > they could just click a button and send me the information and then I > would be able to open up a link between. It might sound a bit simplistic > but I from googling it, Windows has this functionality. > > Or is a just a simple way of using remote desktop that I haven't figured > out yet, > Thanks, > If you want to see exactly what they are seeing, you can investigate VNC. If you just want to be able to run a gui application, you can run
ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then start the gui app at the command line. For this to work you need to make sure that they have the xauth package installed and that you have uncommented the line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that says: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 and restarted sshd. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
