Re: [opensuse] administer vista from opensuse

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:

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

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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?

Outbound from your system you don't need any firewall changes. On the other end (mom's end) you need to allow port 5900 to be open to the internet, and if that goes thru a router (such as adsl router) that router must direct incoming port 5900 to mom's machine. Usually simply installing VNC and running the server side of VNC will open the port thru the windows firewall with the usual amount of Vista "Allow or Deny" messages the first time. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org