[KLUG Members] RE: Networking - Linux - Win98 - Mac OSX

[Bob Kanaley]

Jon,

It all depends on what you want to do with each computer.

SSH is a good place to start for cross-platform command line access, but how
many people know how to drive a Winboz box from the command line? If you are
at all interested in remote control, VNC is a great cross-platform tool.

Although I don't do anything with Mac's anymore, VNCThing
http://www.webthing.net/vncthing/ is a Mac VNC client for OS 9 and X. The
screen shot shows a Mac with a remote Win95 desktop in the middle of it. You
can do the same thing from the Mac box to a Linux box running a VNC server.
In fact, you can have both remote desktops on your screen at the same time.

I use VNC through SSH tunnels to remote control Linux and Windbloz desktops
and servers all over my LAN.

I believe we have several people here on the list doing similar things.

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com



> From: Richard Zimmerman <ke4rit@attbi.com>
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Networking - Linux - Win98 - Mac OSX
> Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org

> > SSH, probably the best bet, but on one hand I've never used
> > SSH, although I've seen it used at KLUG meetings, And on
> the other hand,
> > I have no idea if Win 98 can use the SSH.
>
>    Sure. You use the sshd daemon on the server and there are
> several ssh
> clients available for Windows. I (and many others) use the
> free ssh client
> named "Putty". Works great!
>
> > Any views or ideas are welcome and appreciated.  Thanks
> > --
> > Jon Smitley <lunitix@earthlink.net>