On 31 May 08, James Bland wrote:

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:40 AM, jdd wrote:

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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?

thanks jdd

You should be able to setup RDP on Vista and use rdestop on openSUSE for remote admin. That's one of the ways I remote admin my users XP PCs at work. The other is to install uklravnc on the windows PC and use KRDC or a web browser to remote admin.

HTH

James

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Yes, VNC works well for this. Its not totally secure, but for the amount of time you will be on line it should do.

I like to use Hamachi in combination with VNC when I can't get RDP working. Hamachi has clients for Windows, Mac and Linux. Hamachi https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Joe Sloan wrote:

Thanks for the tip -

You are welcome. Also, this article might come in handy. How To: Use Your Computer From Anywhere http://www.maximumpc.com/article/how_to_use_your_computer_from_anywhere Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

At 00:19:19 on Sunday Sunday 01 June 2008, Kai Ponte wrote:

On Saturday 31 May 2008 02:40:40 am jdd wrote:

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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?

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070601_suse_rdc.jpg

That's me using RDC from my laptop into an XP machine and..

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20071101_rdc_vista.jpg

...connecting to my main Vista desktop at work.

I use KDE and have the Remote desktop connection under Application > System > Remote Access > Remote Desktop Connection.

To use RDC to connect to a Wintendo box, you type in

rdc:\\username@ip.ad.re.ss

You can also use VNC on this tool, but I like RDC better.

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