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[PLUG] Remote XP ... Re: Edit Windows Registry from Linux LiveCD?
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Has anyone found a Linux easy, safe and secure solution to doing remote desktop help to someone with XP or similar? My guess is this is going to come back as a VNC solution. It has to be easy and safe for a novice XP user receiving help.
I was hoping for using rdesktop ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdesktop ), but it does not yet support "remote assistance requests" from XP.
As I mentioned before, trying to guide a novice on XP to allow their machine to do remote desktop assistance (and later turning it off), and transmitting the invitations can be a very difficult task.
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> Not if I am doing it via SSH command line from the Ubuntu
> Live CD. He
> types "sudo aptitude install openssh-server &&
> ifconfig" into a terminal
> window and he's done. (I find it a hell of a lot
> easier to tell someone
> what to type than to try to describe GUI operations over
> the phone.)
>
>
> > BTW, how does one deal with the port mapping of the
> router of a
> > person you are trying to help (when using something
> like ssh)? I
> > guess there are some software tools, that maybe use
> STUN server (I
> > think that is the right word) like technology to
> punch through
> > routers. Is there such software that one can
> install and run to
> > punch through a non port mapped router for using
> ssh? Or that person
> > connects to you and opens a terminal for you on your
> machine (but you
> > have to explain how to do that).
>
> Good point. I'm not sure they have a firewall or
> anything. I was going
> to have him plug the PC directly into his Comcast cable
> modem, which
> should work. If not, then it gets sticky. I had
> half-formed thoughts
> of having him SSH into one of my servers, and then just
> doing SSH port
> forwarding to allow me to tunnel back to his side.
> There are other ways
> to do it too, Google "reverse shell".
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