David Pashley wrote:
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
Hi David,
Thanks, I will a play around with that approach :)
What I am really looking for a gui. With a screen with one text field
and button that says:
Emails Address of helper: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[button which sends a invitation for remote desktop]
This way they can send me all the details of their host, such as
ipaddress etc. Otherwise, I have to get them to open the terminal and
type in ifconfig command, then read some numbers from a screen they
don't understand, then open up the email client. This is always hard to
explain and makes things over complicated.
Any ideas? or do you think I should suggest it to the gnome / vino people?
Cheerio,
James
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