[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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