Remote Control Software

[James Knott]

James Knott wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> I have two requirements.
>>
>> 1) I have Linux on a PS3 and I want to control it from my desktop 
>> Linux system. Most commonly creating playlists of music and launching 
>> the music player.
>>
>> 2) I will be working on the road again beginning next week. I want to 
>> be able to do my development of web sites (using PHP) from my hotel 
>> room. I need to connect my laptop (Windows) through the Internet, 
>> through my router/firewall to my Linux desktop. I want to run my 
>> editor and test using the Firefox browser.
>>
>> Advise on what I should look at is requested and appreciated!
>>
> 
> You want Xming and Putty.  Xming is an X server and Putty is an SSH 
> client.  Then you'll have to configure your firewall to pass SSH (TCP 
> port 22) to your computer.  Once that's done, to run an app, start Xming 
> and then at the command prompt use the command ssh -X <host> to connect 
> to your system and then issue the command to start the application.  
> You'll probably want to add " &" at the end of the command, to free up 
> the prompt for other commands.  The remote app should now appear on your 
> Windows desktop.  Once you've verified that works, you should be able to 
> create icons for starting your apps, on the Windows desktop, by using 
> Xlaunch (part of Xming).

I forgot to mention, you'll probably want to configure SSH to use only 
RSA keys and not a password.  This makes it far more secure from 
dictionary attacks.


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