Hi All, Is there a simple way for me to access my brothers windows vista computer in Wanganui from my Ubuntu box? I have access to his internet account and can get my sis in law to change the windows permissions if need be... Regards John..
rdesktop uses remote desktop ? Otherwise install VNC on it and use xvncviewer ? Liz 2009/11/10 <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz>
Hi All, Is there a simple way for me to access my brothers windows vista computer in Wanganui from my Ubuntu box? I have access to his internet account and can get my sis in law to change the windows permissions if need be... Regards John..
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Is there a simple way for me to access my brothers windows vista computer in Wanganui from my Ubuntu box? I have access to his internet account and can get my sis in law to change the windows permissions if need be...
My sister uses "Hamachi", a closed-source zero-config VPN software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamachi There seems to be also a similar open-source software available, called "Wippien": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wippien Both run on Windows and Linux, apparently. Maybe worth a shot? NB: I haven't used any of these tools. Personally, I would have installed cygwin with an openssh server on the Windows box and configured a no-ip.org client to get around the constantly changing IP address. But that involves quite a bit of work... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
2009/11/10 <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz>:
Hi All, Is there a simple way for me to access my brothers windows vista computer in Wanganui from my Ubuntu box? I have access to his internet account and can get my sis in law to change the windows permissions if need be...
I haven't tested properly, but ... Install tightvnc ( http://www.tightvnc.com/ ) on the Windows box, vinagre on the Ubuntu box and Bob's your uncle! It seems to work quite well. Michael
2009/11/10 Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com>:
2009/11/10 <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz>:
Hi All, Is there a simple way for me to access my brothers windows vista computer in Wanganui from my Ubuntu box? I have access to his internet account and can get my sis in law to change the windows permissions if need be...
I haven't tested properly, but ...
Install tightvnc ( http://www.tightvnc.com/ ) on the Windows box, vinagre on the Ubuntu box and Bob's your uncle! It seems to work quite well.
that's the easy part. Finding your way around NAT and dynamic IP addresses makes things quite a lot harder. I'm using http://www.dyndns.com/ to find my home network when I'm out, and you'll find useful advice and tools for port forwarding on http://portforward.com/ -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to any of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message.
www.logmein.com will work and you wont need to mess about with dynamic ip's and NAT. CR -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:wlug-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Bruce Kingsbury Sent: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 9:44 p.m. To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Access brothers computer? 2009/11/10 Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com>:
2009/11/10 <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz>:
Hi All, Is there a simple way for me to access my brothers windows vista computer in Wanganui from my Ubuntu box? I have access to his internet account and can get my sis in law to change the windows permissions if need be...
I haven't tested properly, but ...
Install tightvnc ( http://www.tightvnc.com/ ) on the Windows box, vinagre on the Ubuntu box and Bob's your uncle! It seems to work quite well.
that's the easy part. Finding your way around NAT and dynamic IP addresses makes things quite a lot harder. I'm using http://www.dyndns.com/ to find my home network when I'm out, and you'll find useful advice and tools for port forwarding on http://portforward.com/ -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to any of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- This message was scanned by the Turnstone managed spam filter and is believed to be clean.
Just wondering if anyone has an old 64Mb or 128Mb SDRAM SODIMM kicking around that they would like to donate / sell. I'm fixing up a laptop for a friends kid and it could really do with a bit more ram but don't really want to deal with the cost and hassle of getting legacy memory from a retailer. Any help will be appreciated Thanks Jason
I got a bit busy for a few days and have only just had a chance to pull the laptop apart. Turns out that it already has 128Mb in it, it just needed reseating so thanks to all who offered help and sorry if I put you to any trouble Cheers Jason
Just wondering if anyone has an old 64Mb or 128Mb SDRAM SODIMM kicking around that they would like to donate / sell. I'm fixing up a laptop for a friends kid and it could really do with a bit more ram but don't really want to deal with the cost and hassle of getting legacy memory from a retailer.
Any help will be appreciated
Thanks Jason _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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