That leads me to this thought: if you really want access to a GUI desktop on your home machine, and/or don't want to carry an Putty floppy with you...
What about installing (Tight)VNC on your Linux machine, and use its HTTP/Java capabilities to get to your machine from any Internet-connected machine that has a Java-capable browser? The beauty of that is that that web page Kenneth proposes could then have an actual *link* to your X desktop! That is perhaps not too secure, but you could always run apache-ssl, or apache + mod_ssl, with authentication, and use mod_proxy to forward requests to Xvnc. Mind you, personally I'd rather just use Putty/SSH when possible, and I use DynDNS for the addressing. I would think the above would be substantially slower - but it could help you out in a pinch. Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: Login to home from work > From: > Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > 09 Sep 2002 19:39:17 +0200 > To: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If your isp has possibilities for a homepage you can make cron.hourly > and put a script there. > Example of script is: > ---------------- > ken@pingu:~$ cat ip.script > #!/bin/bash > wget www.showmyip.com -O /var/tmp/ip && grep nextgen /var/tmp/ip | cat> > /var/tmp/test.html && ncftpput -u kennkarl -p xxxwhatever > home.broadpark.no / /var/tmp/test.html > ken@pingu:~$ > ------------------ > > results : > http://home.broadpark.no/~kennkarl/test.html > > Im never more than a hour away from home.... > > > Kenneth > > > On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 15:43, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 09:14:26PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: >> >>>What needs to be set up in order to login to my home box from work? At >>>home there is a cable modem, then a router, then two linux boxes, with >>>mine running debian (sid). I have a 192.168.2.xx ip address. >> >>You'll need some way of identifying your home machine remotely. I use >>dyndns.org's service to get DNS. >> >>You'll also need to install ssh if you intend on logging in remotely. >> >>- -- >>Baloo >> >> >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) >> >>iD8DBQE9fKWXNtWkM9Ny9xURAlzWAJ9YR2ik2W756SC+FTq8zjcrcxEDUQCgoqVo >>50GF8zHLeqSnlgnuliwvVC8= >>=CtGO >>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
