From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 26 23:14:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f190.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C7DB37B99A for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ntvsunix@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 7286 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jun 2000 06:14:51 -0000 Message-ID: <20000627061451.7285.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.53.54.44 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:14:51 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.53.54.44] From: "Some Person" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote Connections Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:14:51 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Simplist way (for what you're looking for), would be VNC. Kinda like PC Anywhere for just about ANY from/to ANY platform - AND!!! IT'S FREE!!! Besides, Norton anything sucks!!! In other words, you want to run either X apps, or X Windows remotly, etc.. etc.. Then this is it, otherwise, look into Xwin32 also. OpenNT was another long time ago, dunno anymore... check out: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ > >Please forgive me if this is a stupid question but when you connect to a >FreeBSD machine remotely using telnet, what can you do on the system >besides viewing the contents of files, using editors like vi, looking at >system processes or reading and sending mail messages? Supposedly, one >of the great things about a UNIX system is that multiple users can >connect to it from remote locations and do work simultaneously. What >work? Isn't there a way to be able to launch and use some of the neat >applications that come with KDE, for example? Is there another way of >connecting besides telnet, that would serve this purpose? I've set up >some accounts on my FreeBSD box for people I work with but at the >moment, I'm at a loss for showing them some neat things they can do. >Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. > >Joe > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message