On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 08:53 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:52 -0400, steve reilly wrote:

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I've been administering the linux side via scripts for the most part, but I'm sure someone must have made a tool like Remote Desktop for Linux by now.

Any ideas?

Krdc works great for me.

It works great for remote desktop-ing to windows machines, but to Linux machines I use NX (nomachine version, from the site, they provide suse rpms), its free for Linux (windows client aswell) and its much smoother than VNC. Also, it uses ssh by default to tunnel the remote session, so its secure.

Hans

I just stumbled on this on the kdedev site. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3071 Hans E-mail Disclaimer http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:53 -0400, John (raz0r) wrote:

On 10/24/07, todd@sohovfx.com wrote:

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Hey gang,

I've been administering a medium sized linux/osx network. On the OSX network Apple has this great tool called Remote Desktop that allows me to view/control workstations, install software, run scripts and generate a plethora of reports.

I've been administering the linux side via scripts for the most part, but I'm sure someone must have made a tool like Remote Desktop for Linux by now.

Any ideas?

Cheers Todd

There's webmin if you want to use a web browser. http://www.webmin.com

Suse has an option in Yast for Remote Administration. http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Remote_Administration

Or just ssh -X to the box and launch whatever gui tool you like, or admin from shell.

I could be wrong, but those tools are fairly limited compared to what he wants to do with Apple Remote Desktop, including things like cloning (imaging), inventory, automatic application pushes, etc. The closest thing that I'm aware of for ARD, and better than ARD in my experience, is Novell's ZENworks product line wich includes a Linux Management feature. There are however, many free, open-source products out there that do some of the functions of ARD/ZENworks. But it gets to be a chore to manage multiple products to do the combined featureset that exists in ARD or ZENworks. I've worked with ARD for the last few years, and only recently has ARD begun to catch up with the feature set available in ZENworks. It's a damn shame Novell never made it OSX capable. But how can you dislike ARD's price point ($500 for an enterprise site-wide license)? ARD 3.x is getting pretty close to a ZEN-like experience. :-) -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org