[NBLUG/talk] Remote mail access

Jim Oser oserj at OserConsulting.com
Tue Feb 7 13:43:26 PST 2006


Andrew,

Thanks. NX/FreeNX is very slick.

I downloaded the Mac OS X client from http://www.nomachine.com/ 
download.php

I then signed up for the TestDrive. http://www.nomachine.com/ 
testdrive.php

I am now running SuseLinux via ssh from a server in Italy on my Mac  
OS X PowerBook.

Jim


On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Andrew wrote:

> Lincoln Peters wrote on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:37:46 -0800:
>
>>> 3. VNC - I use this sometimes to respond to work emails so
>>>    that my   response is sitting in my work box, rather than
>>>    my home machine.   By this I mean that I will get on my
>>>    desktop at work via VNC and   run Thunderbird from there
>>>    to respond to an email.  Both this and   option #1 would
>>>    allow you to read email that you had already read   but
>>>    are stored on your home box.
>>
>> This might be simpler, but I'd be worried about the bandwidth
>> requirements.
>
> I highly recommend that all who use VNC (or are considering it)
> at this time to connect to remote Linux boxen take a look instead
> at NX/FreeNX. It kicks VNC @ss in a major way. Think VNC with
> compression so good it runs fairly well over a 56k link. And
> that's *with* SSH encryption (VNC is unencrypted). I still have
> dialup at home and when I go out of town I use NX to connect back
> to my home machine to do various tasks, including collecting,
> reading, and sending email. Everything stays on the home box. No
> worries about syncing. VNC over such a link would be almost
> useless.
>
> NX is being developed by the guys at NoMachine
> ( http://www.nomachine.com/ ) for their commercial NX servers, but
> they've graciously GPLed the core technology, which is what makes
> the FreeNX server ( http://freenx.berlios.de/ ) possible. Use
> FreeNX as your server (.debs and .rpms can be found) and grab one
> of NoMachine's free clients (Linux, Solaris, OS X, Windows,
> Zaurus, iPAQ, and PlayStation2 versions available) to connect to
> it. Also, both server and client are included in recent versions
> of Knoppix.
>
> LinuxJournal has a seven-part series on NX. The first article is
> here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8477  Search the LJ
> site for the rest.
>
> For DynDNS.org updating, I use ipcheck.py (it's in Debian). Nice
> little script that's easy to use. Since I'm still on dialup, I
> have a small bash script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that invokes
> ipcheck so that it does its thing whenever the PPP link is
> brought up.
>
> A.
>
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