I've been using freenx which used to do the job perfectly but doesn't work with unity. Waiting to see if it'll work on 12.04 -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Andres Muniz <andre...@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Mensaje original ----- > On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote: > > I set up a "show Alan" button on the desktop which makes a keys based > > ssh session to my home server on a static IP address and forwards his > > port 22 to a port here. I can then ssh back to him and log in as a > > user I created on his machine, I can also forward port 5900 and > > request a desktop share or do other stuff. The important thing is > > that his end initiates the connection as I have a static IP address > > and he doesn't, and it is zero effort from his end. I wish this was a > > bit more built in, I know desktop sharing is built in, but it is > > mostly initiated from the wrong end. It should be "I want to share my > > desktop with $IP address" which is set up and waiting for a > > connection with a one-time password. The person needing support > > should not be the one needing to know their external IP address and > > what port to open. > > This sounds just great. If it was more built in I would certainly try > to use it to support friends I have. Until then, I use teamviewer as a > non commercial (non paying) user, and that is good, albeit proprietary. > -- > alan cocks > > ditto. I had heard of remmina or something of the sort being easy but i could not get my head around that nor remotedesktop outside the network.
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