[NBLUG/talk] How to access my home computer remotely
David Rosenstrauch
darose at darose.net
Wed Dec 29 07:16:26 PST 2010
On 12/28/2010 09:33 PM, E Frank Ball III wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 05:12:57PM -0800, Roger House wrote:
> > I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.04 on my computer at home, and I'll soon
> > need to access this computer from sites away from home. I'm hoping that
> > the access from afar will allow me to drive the home computer more or less
> > as if I were sitting in front of it. I will probably be using a
> > laptop when
> > away from home, and it may be running some version of Windows; I do not yet
> > know if I will have the option to run Ubuntu on the laptop.
>
>
> Roger,
>
> Remote access is easy, but "access from afar will allow me to drive the
> home computer more or less as if I were sitting in front of it."
> requires serious bandwidth (10s of MB), which you probably don't have
> from home. My remote access is mostly ssh from terminals, exporting
> graphics only when I have too.
NX is a good solution here, as it's easier on bandwidth than VNC.
DR
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