Quote (Disel) Is the local computer behind a firewall? A VNC client is a good means to access a remote Linux or Windows system. Assuming I understand correctly, that you want to sit at the local Linux system and remote-control the remote Windows system, then you need two things: 1. Run a VNC server on the remote Windows machine.
2. Poke a hole in the firewall on the appropriate port for the remote system in order for the local system to access the VNC server on the remote system. You need to make sure that you have configured the VNC server to use encrypted streams and choose a good password for it, and change it regularly. Alternatively to poking a hole in the firewall you can install a VPN server on the remote network and let the local system tunnel into it. Then you can just connect to the remote system directly, and more safel Hi Rubberman, Thanks for your advice. Both the remote and local computers are not behind firewall. It can be stopped temporarily. I need to use the built-in RDP on Windows. Because the owner of the remote computer is not knowledgeable on IT. Requesting him to install VNC will be a problem. I want to remote control his computer assisting him to configure Windows. I use rdesktop on LAN many occasions without problem. On local computer just run; $ rdesktop -a 24 -N user@local_ip_of_remote_computer Or
$ rdesktop -a 24 -N user@locol_ip_of_remote_computer:3389 (if it is a VM, guest of a virtual machine) Then I can take control of the remote computer on LAN. I haven't figured out how to do it over Internet. I expect making preparation first before requesting my friend to do the field test. TIA B.R.
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