Edmond Rodriguez on 10 Jan 2010 15:53:33 -0800


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[PLUG] Remote XP ... Re: Edit Windows Registry from Linux LiveCD?


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.

......
> 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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