On 10/08/2011 11:14 AM, Adam Bishop wrote:
Assuming you mean plain old LogMeIn, and not Hamachi, you don't need to install
anything (except a web browser and a recent JVM) to get access to a remote
machine that is running LogMeIn.
LogMeIn provides a web-based java client, she just needs to visit the
logmein.com and log in with the credentials she has been given and follow the
instructions.
If you do mean Hamachi, then the details she has been given are for the Hamachi
VPN service, so you would just install the Hamachi client onto her machine,
connect it, and run whatever remote access protocol (VNC, RDP, SSH) you want
over the top.
Regards,
Adam Bishop
JANET(UK)
On 8 Oct 2011, at 17:57, Yasha Karant wrote:
I have a colleague in the social sciences whose laptop I maintain as a
professional favor (she has no support from her department, cannot afford a
MacOS X machine, and I was sick and tired of trying to make MS Win work -- EL 5
is stable and supports the hardware she owns). She is a journal editor, and
requires access to the remote machine used by this journal (MacOS X). The
journal is housed at a different university. The technical support staff person
to the journal has installed LogMeIn as the means of her to do remote access.
I have found
https://secure.logmein.com/US/labs/
LogMeIn Hamachi for Linux (Beta) - command line version
but my colleague needs a GUI -- remote Gnome client (her machine) to a MacOS X
server via LogMeIn (I pursued VNC and other solutions -- but this is the only
free service that the remote university will allow due to their view of
security).
At present, my only solution is to run the LogMeIn MS Win client under MS Win
under VirtualBox under EL -- does anyone know of another avenue?
Thanks for any assistance.
Yasha Karant
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I do not know what service the journal hosting university technical
person installed -- other than being told "LogMeIn". It is the free of
fee service.
In the first case, "plain old" LogMeIn, with a JVM under Firefox current
under EL, will the end-user see the remote (MacOS X) desktop and
applications thereunder within the frame of the browser?
In the second case, "Hamachi" that only supports a plain shell interface
under Linux (no GUI), does one run a VNC server on the remote MacOS X
machine and a VNC client on the local (end user) machine, and then
somehow tunnel (vpn?) through LogMeIn Hamachi?
Thanks for any insight. (As to the comment in another response directly
to run VNC, etc., the journal hosting university network staff will not
permit this.)
Yasha Karant
