[lug] Remote admin linux to windows

[Steve Sullivan]

Thanks again for the tips.  That is indeed the scenario: I have a
linux box and want to control a remote win XP box, so that as I
manipulate the XP screen the remote XP user can see what I'm
doing.

Steve

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:27:53PM -0700, Dave Treece wrote:
> Doesn't that work? If the machine you want to control is windows (or mac  
> based) then logmein works (pc/mac client). I use firefox on Linux to  
> work on my Windows box via logmein. Or maybe I missed the actual  
> requirement. If you trying to get onto linux from anything then I think  
> vnc is probably the better choice.
>
> Nathan Berry wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> Since LogMeIn is controlled through a web browser I believe it is  
>> platform independent (as far as where you control a PC from).  I  
>> understand that the client part of LogMeIn (placed on the machine you  
>> wish to control) may not be available for LINUX machines.  However, I  
>> believe his requirement was being able to control other people's  
>> Windows-based machines.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>> "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it - even if I have said it  
>> - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
>>
>>   -- Buddha
>>
>> "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
>>
>> -- Albert Einstein
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:45 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us  
>> <mailto:anselmi at anselmi.us>> wrote:
>>
>>     Nathan Berry wrote:
>>
>>         Steve,
>>
>>         I use the LogMeIn service, http://www.logmein.com.  There is a
>>         free version
>>         that works well.
>>
>>
>>     "LogMeIn is currently in the open beta phase of testing for our
>>     Linux remote control plugin, which will allow users to use their
>>     Linux based machine to control Windows and Mac OSX hosts."
>>
>>     https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/supportkb.asp
>>
>>     which isn't Free software and isn't even distributed with a license.
>>
>>
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