Remote control of a system

***glennzo*** · #1 13th May 2008, 12:21 AM

Do I understand correctly that once I get a Fedora 8 system installed and configured for remote access that I can log in remotely, which would be from another machine on the local network, and configure that system from the remote log in? If I'm correct then I can use SSH for command line stuff? I can also use VNC client to do things in a windowed environment?

jtang613 · #2 13th May 2008, 01:14 AM

---------- Yes -------------

***glennzo*** · #3 13th May 2008, 01:17 AM

Will I have full control of the system same as I would if I was logged in as root on it?

drobbins · #4 13th May 2008, 01:18 AM

you can also redirect the display to the machine you're sitting in front of
if it happens to be a Windoz box use xming as an x-server

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming

very nice

Dave

drobbins · #5 13th May 2008, 01:25 AM

however you choose to to it you will have to login
if you login as root you will be root

Dave

jtang613 · #6 13th May 2008, 01:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennzo

Will I have full control of the system same as I would if I was logged in as root on it?

SSH allows you to log in remotely to a shell. It replaces the old Telnet class of servers which were about as secure as writing your password on your forehead. Once logged in, you have the same access you would as if you were physically sitting in front of the box.

VNC is similar to Windows Remote Desktop in that it provides remote GUI access. VNC is rather slow since it is transfering large amounts of graphic data. A much faster and generally better remote desktop interface is FreeNX. Lots of howto's out there for both.

- J

***glennzo*** · #7 13th May 2008, 01:26 AM

Sweet! I'll be using the laptop running Fedora 8 to log in to the desktop running Fedora 8. Thanks guys.

***glennzo*** · #8 13th May 2008, 01:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtang613

SSH allows you to log in remotely to a shell. It replaces the old Telnet class of servers which were about as secure as writing your password on your forehead. Once logged in, you have the same access you would as if you were physically sitting in front of the box.

VNC is similar to Windows Remote Desktop in that it provides remote GUI access. VNC is rather slow since it is transfering large amounts of graphic data. A much faster and generally better remote desktop interface is FreeNX. Lots of howto's out there for both.

- J

I'll look into FreeNX then as I wasn't too impressed with the speed of VNC. Really slow.

woppa30 · #9 13th May 2008, 10:44 AM

On a local LAN VNC should be fine, i used to tunnel a vnc session over ssh to my linux box at home which only had a rubbish uplaod speed and although sluggish it was usable.
Once I was at home on a LAN connection (11Mb wifi) it was very fast.
Hope this helps,
Woppa

***glennzo*** · #10 13th May 2008, 10:49 AM

VNC is generally usable however the screen refresh on the client is pretty bad.

lazlow · #11 13th May 2008, 06:44 PM

If you drop the resolution of the VNC screen back, it will vastly increase the speed. Setting the resolution of the VNC screen is separate from the resolution of the physical screen (local and remote). Firewing has a post on how to setup everything that includes a section on VNC.

savage · #12 14th May 2008, 09:08 AM

Just another option, but I use xRDP on my server, it's a port of the Windows RDP Protocol, so you can use the Terminal Services client that comes with pretty much every copy of Windows since 2000.

It works fine, but don't try and use it over the Internet, it seems to not use compression properly, and is slow as hell compared to usual RDP, but is fine for use over a LAN.