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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Remote desktop and WOL Advice (Peter Hemmings)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:37:20 +0100
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: debian@invux.com, Bristol and Bath Linux User Group
<bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Remote desktop and WOL Advice
Message-ID: <537D1C90.4010202@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
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Thanks for the info (Steve and Dave) I will have a look later this week,
I am having to visit the BRI and hope to have a go when things get less
hectic.


On 21/05/14 14:36, Steve King wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am now having a problem in getting up and down stairs so need an easy
>> way to view my PC Desktop on a laptop/TV downstairs. It would also be
>> really handy to do something like WOL to switch the PC on. I have played
>> with ssh and remote desktop over the years but never been successful and
>> would just like advice on the best way to go as my need is now a bit
>> urgent and need an easy/ reliable solution?
>>
>
> There are various utilities for wake-on-lan, the one I have used (in
> debian) is called etherwake. But numerous similar things exist, I even
> have one on my android phone.
>
> The raw ethernet wake-on-lan applications generally only work if you are
> on the same LAN segment (broadcast domain), which I expect you will be.
> There are some that send TCP packets with WOL ethernet packets embedded
> within them, which are supposed to allow you to WOL from a different LAN
> segment.
>
> Some motherboards will take longer to boot from a WOL packet power on than
> normally, as they will try a net boot which will have to fail, before they
> boot from the hdd.
>
> Then, remote access from your laptop to your desktop. It depends what you
> want to accomplish.
>
> You can start with:
> If you have openssh server configured with X11Forwarding yes , you will be
> able to open X applications from your server on your laptop.
> ssh -X desktop, where 'desktop' is the hostname or ip address of your
> desktop machine. Once you are logged in, simply typing the name of the
> executable will use your local screen to render its graphics. X (and W
> before it) was designed from the start to be network transparent.
>
> If you want a full session, you have the following options, possibly more.
> 1. Configure your login manager (gdm3, kdm, slim, etc) to support xdmcp,
> which is not very secure
> 2. use vnc4server, to create a login session on your desktop, then connect
> via vnc4viewer
> 3. use xrdp to act as a session broker on your server, use rdesktop to
> connect.
>
> If you want sound, it is theoretically possible with the xrdp/rdesktop
> method, though I have never tried it.
>
> None of these methods will work very well with full screen video, but if
> you don't have that requirement, you should be fine.
>
> --
> Steve
>
>
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