Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2461 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 31 May 2008 02:58:26 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
> At 00:19:19 on Sunday Sunday 01 June 2008, Kai Ponte
>
> <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 May 2008 02:40:40 am jdd wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > My 88 years old mother just bough a new computer. On the old one, she
> > > used openSUSE, but on the new she will use Vista (she needs to play
> > > some sort of power point files that I simply can't make play music on
> > > opensuse, even in wine - given her age, I can't ask her too much)
> > >
> > > I know little about vista, but there is some sort of "remote admin"
> > >
> > > is this feature usable from my own openSUSE? (we are not in the same
> > > town) I installed openSUSE primarily to be able to do remote admin
> > >
> > > :-()
> > >
> > > is that VNC?
> >
> > You can use VNC, but Vista has built-in Remote Desktop Connection or
> > RDC software.
>
> What has to be done in order to get past a firewall on either the
> controlled or controller system?

Stan - someone else mentioned port 5900.  You can also go the route of setting 
up an SSH connection on the Wintendo box, thus creating a VPN to the box. 
IIRC, you'll need to run the SSH under cygwin or something like that.



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