PcAnywhere equivalent

[Ed Smith]

>Is there a SIMPLE way to take control of a Fedora "work" workstation
from my HOME?  Is there a command equivalent to IPCONFIG?

>Don F. Cavaiani
>IT Manager
>Amerequip Corp.

Hi Don,

I'm working at doing the same thing- I currently SSH from my "work"
workstation to my home Fedora machine (during breaks, of course!). I log
in with my regular account, and su for anything I require more
privileges for. I do not allow root SSH login.

For a GUI, I am looking at implementing Cygwin on my Windows machine to
establish the equivalent of an RDP session to my Fedora box. From what I
understand, it may require a fair amount of firewall config.

For ipconfig, Linux has a somewhat comparable command- ifconfig.
Ifconfig [interface] will work like an ipconfig /all. If you're looking
at something like an ipconfig /release and /renew, you'll probably need
to do that through dhclient....I believe the command set is dhclient -r
(release) followed by dhclient [interface] (which I believe restarts the
dhcp client service and requests a new IP address).

Hope this helps.

Edward Smith
esmith at bcc.ctc.edu