<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">What kind of access do you need? Just telnet or ssh, or do you need the GUI. If you need the gui access check out VNC. Also you probably want to set up a dyndns.org account and install the client on your PC so you can access the machine by name, since I doubt your external IP address is static. <br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 12/29/10, Roger House <i><rhouse@sonic.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Roger House <rhouse@sonic.net><br>Subject: [NBLUG/talk] How to access my home computer remotely<br>To: talk@nblug.org<br>Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 1:12 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.04 on my computer at home, and I'll soon<br>need to access this computer from sites away from home. I'm hoping that<br>the access from afar
will allow me to drive the home computer more or less<br>as if I were sitting in front of it. I will probably be using a laptop when<br>away from home, and it may be running some version of Windows; I do not yet<br>know if I will have the option to run Ubuntu on the laptop.<br><br>I would very much appreciate detailed instructions on how to go about this.<br>Of course, I'll need to leave my home computer running when I'm at a remote<br>site. But, what programs should be installed on the home computer? What<br>permissions should be set up so access from a remote site is allowed? What<br>software is needed on the remote laptop? How do I make the connection from<br>the remote computer to the home computer? Will I have issues with IP<br>addresses? I use Comcast with a cable modem and a router. I know the router<br>provides a local IP address for the home computer, but it seems that the<br>remote computer needs
more than this.<br><br>Any help will be appreciated. Don't worry about saying the obvious. I'm<br>essentially a network newbie, so no explanation can be too simple to be<br>useful.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Roger House<br><a ymailto="mailto:rhouse@sonic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=rhouse@sonic.net">rhouse@sonic.net</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@nblug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=talk@nblug.org">talk@nblug.org</a><br><a href="http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>