PcAnywhere equivalent

[Gary Stainburn]

On Friday 08 October 2004 4:01 pm, Mark Haney wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 10:55, Don Cavaiani wrote:
> > Is there a SIMPLE way to take control of a Fedora "work"
> > workstation from my HOME?  Is there a command equivalent to
> > IPCONFIG?
>
> Yes.  And yes.  It's called SSH and I do it all the time.  It's
> command line, but you have control of the box in the sense that you
> can issue commands like you could as if at the console.  If you want
> a GUI, you can run VNC (although VNC over SSH is preferred).
>

Of course, if both boxes are running Linux (or any compat unix) and 
you're using X then SSH will do the GUI stuff too.  All you need to do 
is enable X forwarding on both boxes (default?) and you've got remote X 
working.

This is how I work from home and it works great.  Much more flexable 
(including working cut/paste etc) and better use of bandwidth than 
VNC/PCAnywhere etc.  Just remember to use the -C option to enable 
compression.

> And the command equivalent of IPCONFIG is (oddly enough) ifconfig.
>
> > Don F. Cavaiani
> > IT Manager
> > Amerequip Corp.
> > 920-894-7063
>
> --------------------------------------
> Mark Haney
> Network Administrator
> InterAct Public Safety Systems
> mhaney at interactsys.com
> Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux
> 10:59:41 up 3:18, 2 users, load average: 9.53, 9.01, 8.76

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