I have been trying to get a handle on how to remotely administer a
linuxbox I would like to have colocated at my ISP. I have read howtos
and minihowtos until my head is spinning. God what I wouldn't give
for a simple Timbuktu like approach to this problem in linux. So far
I have gotten ssh2 setup on both machines (which are current on my
LAN and I'll call "local" and "remote"). I can use ssh to login from
local to remote as root, which I would think is the first step.
However, now the confusion begins. Ideally I would like to display a
kde desktop on my local machine that reflects the remote machine. I
have heard numerous times about people supposably doing this such
that it works just like sitting in front of the remote machine (apart
from bandwith delay in response). Both my machines are running
mandrake 7. I will be using a cable modem to connect from the local
to the remote machine at the isp. Could someone please tell me the
concrete simple steps to get this working?
I also gather that it might be useful (and much faster) to use NFS to
mount the remote machine disk on my local machine, but I also get the
impression that security in that approach is a big concern. Thoughts
on this approach would also be appreciated!
And yes, I already know about webmin as a partial solution, but it
doesn't get close to what I would need to be able to do to make this
practical for me.
Thanks much for any advice!
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Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
