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    What is this SSH?

    I've been using Kubuntu for over a year now, and during that time have read a ton of comments about SSHing to remote control your PC, or something to that effect. I know a little about SSH, its something related to a secure, remote protocol, so you can remotely manage your PC.

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    Do you recommend any good starter-guides for this topic? I'm no Linux expert, (obviously), but I like to kinda know whats going on underneath.
    How easily is this done from a Windows computer, instead of another Linux box?
    To what degree of control do you have? As in, can you control the mouse, seeing your desktop, or its it more CLI-ish.

    Just looking for a nice introduction, thanks for your time!
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    Sorry and I don't mean to be rude, but this is really something you could have easily found out if you had used Google or Wikipedia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell

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    Re: What is this SSH?

    Yeh secure shell needs the terminal I am afraid
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    Re: What is this SSH?

    Quote Originally Posted by SunnyRabbiera View Post
    Yeh secure shell needs the terminal I am afraid
    Not necessarily. See the Wikipedia article above. Depending on what you do you get a terminal session, or access to the remote system's filesystem, or you access the remote system's desktop... It isn't really that hard. And the forums here are full of tutorials. You'd just need to make use of the "search" function

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    Re: What is this SSH?

    I use SSH through nautilus too.
    Places => Connect to server
    And pick SSH

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    Re: What is this SSH?

    Quote Originally Posted by aktiwers View Post
    I use SSH through nautilus too.
    Places => Connect to server
    And pick SSH
    Exactly. And that's just one way to use it. What I do e.g. with some friends who I have converted to Ubuntu is that I tunnel VNC through SSH so I can help them if they encounter problems.

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    Re: What is this SSH?

    I don't think SSH can literally display the desktop of the remote PC, you can have X Forwarding however, which allows you to run GUI app's over SSH.

    If you want remote control with mouse and screen et al. You need to look into VNC

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    Re: What is this SSH?

    Quote Originally Posted by Joeb454 View Post
    I don't think SSH can literally display the desktop of the remote PC, you can have X Forwarding however, which allows you to run GUI app's over SSH.

    If you want remote control with mouse and screen et al. You need to look into VNC
    It can be done. It's a bit of a hack, but I've run a full on Gnome session over X forwarding. If you set up a nested Xephyr session and Forward X in to that, you can launch nautilus and gnome-panel which between the two of them should start all the usual Gnome services in your nested session. You'll want a really good connection, because running that many apps over X forwarding isn't quick.

    Code:
    user@Local:~$ Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600 &
    user@Local:~$ DISPLAY=:1 ssh user@host -X
    user@Remote:~$ metacity &
    user@Remote:~$ gnome-panel &
    user@Remote:~$ nautilus -n &
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    Re: What is this SSH?

    Quote Originally Posted by Joeb454 View Post
    I don't think SSH can literally display the desktop of the remote PC, you can have X Forwarding however, which allows you to run GUI app's over SSH.

    If you want remote control with mouse and screen et al. You need to look into VNC
    Correct.. but you can use SSH to secure your VNC session. VNC, by default, is wide open.
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