I have been using rdp and freenx, both of which are usable, vnc is barely usable when I am in the city, let alone away.
You can also port foward several ports from your firewall your home linu box (eg botg22 & 9922 fowarded to your linux box. sshd should be able to listen on more than one port at the same time. ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Original Message ....... On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:49:13 -0600 "Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jon wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I've been using Cosmopod for a while now (www.cosmopod.com). It's very handy >> for using KMail with my IMAP account and for SSH'ing and getting to websites >> on non-standard ports when I'm trapped behind my firewall at work. >> >> However, it's clunky and slow and KMail crashes a lot. I'm wondering if >> there's anything else like CosmoPOD out there? The three features that aI >> need are what's mentioned above: IMAP, SSH, and HTTP to non-standard ports. >> >> Any ideas? > >correct me if I'm wrong, but cosmopod gives you access to your desktop >on your home computer? If that's the case, why not just setup a vnc or >rdp server on your home computer, and then use krdc to connect, or MS >Remote Desktop, or any VNC client... Then you have access to everything > you have set up on your home pc. > >Of course, you'll have to open some ports for this to work, and take >proper security precautions, but you're not relying on a third party >service then... > >hmmm.. reading a little more about cosmopod, it seems it provides it's >own common desktop for you. You could simulate this by putting a Linux >distro of your choice on a usb stick, and booting from that. Then you >have your own desktop everywhere you go (or doing the vnc/rdp thing >above). With a little creative configuration of mount points you could >in theory have access to a common directory as long as you have Internet >access. This might be a bit more effort to set up, but then you're not >potentially giving your details to a 3rd party organization and you have >complete control over what capabilities you get. > >My thoughts.... > >Shawn > >Shawn > > >_______________________________________________ >clug-talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >**Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
