Well you have a few options.
1) Remote Connections:
You can find shareware, freeware, or purchase some sort of remote connection
software. There are tons of them. Personally, I use SecureCRT. They make
software that will allow you to SFTP from a Windows machine to a UNIX/Linux
box, as well as it supports SSH very well. (I would suggest you move to
SSH for various reasons.)
There's QVT/Term, which was my first VT100 emulations software when I first
started working at an ISP almost 4 years ago. It's very customizable, and I
believe it is FREEWARE.
There's also Hummingbird, which makes create software, and even comes with an
X Serve app, but is very pricey. Last I heard it prices around $700. SecureCRT
is about $50 I believe, check their website for information. www.vandyke.com/
But those are some options for connecting to other UNIX/Linux boxes. If you
can't find QVT/Term, let me know. I may have it stored some place and can make
it available via my webserver.
2) Remote Control:
There are applications like VNC that will give you access to other OS systems.
I have installed and tried VNC, and over all it's a good application. But I think
it's more for somebody trying to control an Windows machine from a Linux box. You
can control a Linux box from the Windows box, however it doesn't let you take over
a current X session. (Or if it does, I'm not sure how to do it.) You are given
TWM by default, but you can comment that out an add startkde to run KDE instead.
However, it sounds like you just want a way to access a command line from a
UNIX/Linux box. So applications like SecureCRT and QVT/Term are the way to
go.
If you would rather stick with telnet, then I think QVT/Term will be great
for you, however I strongly suggest you visit www.openssh.com/ and start
working with SSH. At which point SecureCRT would be a better application.
Hope that helps!
tdh
T. Holmes
Unixtechs.org
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"Real Men use Vi."
* Mcintosh, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010419 03:14]:
| HI there
|
| Iv got Linux running on a HP Vectrea VL5 It works just fine
| I am currently accessing this box via telnet. However the screensize of
| telnet is limited and I'm looking for someother kind of
| tools that lets me work from a windows machine.
| Something like PCanywhere.
| I dont want to use X as I'm a newbie and want to practice the command in
| shell.
| Anybody got any ideas?
