[Discuss] Laptop as a remote access device?

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 10:03:22 EDT 2022


On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:45:15 -0400
"Dale R. Worley" <worley at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I'm looking into buying a laptop that's solely a remote access device,
> that is, a portable way to use ssh/X windows server to connect to a
> workstation that's at home.  Does anyone have advice?  It seems to me
> the requirements are:

I run a VNC server on the home machine.

Connect to it with any VNC viewer either over a SSH tunnel or WireGuard
VPN. Simpler to set up than building a portable X-Tube, and faster and
more responsive than tunnelling X clients over the public network.

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