Remote Access Program

[adamherb]

Is there a good remote access program, or maybe there is one built into KDE or Linux. I kinda meant more for helping other people that are having trouble than getting to files from a long way away. They need to be free, and easy to use for the host, atleast after it is configured.

[pureone]

textbased in console type sshd or /etc/init.d/ssh start must be done as root.
to ssh in just type ssh -l root ip
root password must be set before this.

for gui based vnc should be built into knoppix. in console as what ever user you want to log in as so if you want to log into the vncserver as root, as root type vncserver it will then ask you to type your password. if you want to log in as the user KNOPPIX as the userknoppix type vncserver.

to log into the server just simple (if java is installed) http://ip:5801
thats how it works for me
enjoy

[Harry Kuhman]

..... as root type vncserver it will then ask you to type your password. if you want to log in as the user KNOPPIX as the userknoppix type vncserver. .....
I knew Knoppix has a VNC client built into it. I went looking for a VNC server about a month ago, but could not find one. I just tried what you instructed with my Knoppix 3.7 disk, but I get "bash: vncserver: command not found". Is there some extra step that wasn't mentioned above? Has it been removed from recent versions of Knoppix? Do you have anyinsight on why I can't start a VNC server and how I might get one to start from the live CD?

[firebyrd10]

I believe vnc was removed from knoppix a few versions ago.

[adamherb]

I have a hard drive install, so there wouldnt be any big problem to get a program that isn't installed in Knoppix. I would just have to get the download mirror.

[adamherb]

I found this propgram RealVNC at http://www.realvnc.com/ , and It doesnt anywhere say that it is secure. I assume it is, but I just wanted to make sure so that I am not using somthing that isnt secure.

It says at http://www.realvnc.com/download.html that the free version doesnt have128-bit AES Session Encryption & Tamper-Proofing, does that mean that it isnt very secure, with no encryption?

[pureone]

my bad i was unaware if the live cd has vncserver built in. seeing as you have knoppix installed you can do

apt-get install vnc

realvnc i belive costs money and the version on linux doesnt its more of a clone of realvnc

vnc should be secure just make sure you dont use the default port

[adamherb]

So its secure even though there is another version that has encryption, but the free version doesnt. I'll be using the free version.
I also tried the apt-get install vnc, and it didnt work.

[Harry Kuhman]

I have a hard drive install, so there wouldnt be any big problem to get a program that isn't installed in Knoppix. I would just have to get the download mirror.
But you said in your original post " I kinda meant more for helping other people that are having trouble than getting to files from a long way away. If that is the case, for helping other people that are having trouble would require a VCN server or other technique that is on the live CD, not something that has to be installed to hard disk (along with all of Knoppix), when there is already a problem to resolve.

[adamherb]

What I meant was, that I would like to be able to update and help my uncles computer. He is old, and doesnt know anything about computers. I meant that I would want to be able to help him, as opposed to accessing my computer at home form work, or something like that. When I would help him, there would never really be anything broken, just that he cant figure it out, and then thinks its broken. He will also have a hardrive installation of Knoppix. Sorry I should have just said that in my first post.

[Durand Hicks]

You could try tsclient which is something akin to remote desktop featured on winxp. This would mean you would need to run a terminal server (assuming knoppix still has this in the latest versions) on your uncle's computer.
I haven't tested this feature of terminal server, but I do use the tsclient which works nicely in a window on the desktop for fixing the winxp machines on my home network.

HTH,

Durand