My family run Windows XP. I'll have a look into that, thank you for the link! Setting it up wouldn't be too difficult, my mum gets how to use a computer and is fairly good at fixing them with simple things, this is more for the advanced stuff that explaining to her just makes her utterly confused.
I recently got myself an iPhone, so I could attempt to use it as a 3G modem, possibly. Unfortunately, she isn't running Ubuntu yet, but eventually I'll get her to switch. I'm just waiting for Windows to kill itself (again) then I can put Ubuntu on it for a week, and she can decide if she wants to switch. 2009/1/15 Rob Beard <[email protected]> > On 15/01/2009 21:02, Simon Wears wrote: > > The annoying thing is, I can't seem to do that! I live in halls at > > university, and I thought I'd try something like that to help fix my > > mums pc back home, so I tried a few things (Gitso is the only one > > who's name I remember) and non of them work, due to not being able to > > use many ports on the halls internet. Which just goes go show, > > Manchester Met uni admins are no fun :( > Is your mum's PC running on Ubuntu or Windows? > > If she's running Windows (or MacOS X) you might get away with Logmein > (www.logmein.com) which is a free remote control application. It > connects through the Logmein servers and has a nice easy to use web > interface. I've just fixed my dad's internet connection remotely using > it. Luckily because he had a Three mobile broadband modem I was able to > connect into his desktop using that. > > The only issue I found was deploying the application to remote > computers. There is a free trial where you can get it to send someone > an e-mail and they click on the link and it automatically installs the > application, otherwise you can download an installer and then e-mail it > over to a remote user and talk them through installing it over the phone. > > Other than that, if it's an Ubuntu desktop, could you try getting her > router to forward port 80 or 443 on the router to port 22 on her machine > and install OpenSSH? You could then possibly setup a tunnel to her > machine. Hopefully the uni would just think it's web server it's > connecting to. > > Or your final option would probably be to pick up a Pay As You Go mobile > broadband modem on something like T-Mobile or O2 where you pay per day > (might work out cheaper if you don't use it much). > > HTH > > Rob > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Simon Wears [email protected] | http://MunkyJunky.com Manchester Metropolitan University Computing Student
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