Video Overview

This screencast takes you through how to access your computer remotely via a method that uses VNC over SSH.

Target Audience

People that would like to access their machine remotely

Pre-requisites

An ubuntu machine connected to a network connection

Required Knowledge

The user needs a basic understanding of package installation.

Recommended Knowledge

How the user would like to access the machine. Text or graphically based.

Objectives

• Explain what choices there are for accessing your computer remotely
• Explain that VNC is relatively insecure
• Explain what ssh tunnelling is
• Show how to install the ssh server
• Configuring the SSH server
• Setting up the VNC server
• Port forwarding?
• Connecting from a remote machine:
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Mac OS X

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