I've been using TeamViewer for several years now, and I swear by it. If you're needing to connect to a Linux machine, try out NoMachine.
www.nomachine.com It uses the SSH system for encryption, and is highly compressed to give you close to local connection speed. Hope this helps! :) On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:42 PM, RMC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am going to "bite the bullet" and make all the Windows users I support >> to Linux. >> >> Alternately they can find a new friend. >> >> The question of remote support has been a sticking point. LogMeIn works >> great for Mac and Windows. I find only Hamachi as a LogMeIn option to >> install on the remote Linux computer. It is CLI and that doesn't suffice >> for giving remote support. Similarly VNC. >> >> Do I misunderstand VNC or Hamachi providing a GUI? >> >> What about TeamViewer? http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx It >> seems to fit the need but it just seems too straight forward. I felt that >> way about LogMeIn when I first looked at it. >> >> What are others using to provide remote support to user workstations? >> > > FYI: VNC is all about GUI, but it is not sharing the user's X desktop. > My simple understanding is that VNC is a derivative of X, designed to run > over the internet. (X over the internet is SLOW.) Running VNC through SSH > Server (on the user PC) is recommended. It would be possible for both of > you to see the same VNC session, but the user would also have to connect > with a VNC client. > > If users are local, you can use X session instead. (Again, recommended > running through SSH.) I've never tried it, but it should share a desktop > with the user if you were both on simultaneously. I think (???) you would > have to log in as that user to share the desktop. > > Paul Boniol > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
