What’s a good remote administration program for debian linux 64-bit?
I have 2 debian linux computers. One is a media pc server that’s hooked up to a bigscreen. The other is my laptop. I want to be able to control the server from my laptop over a network, so when i point and click it on my laptop, it will start a movie (or whatever) on the media pc. I installed VNC but it seems to only let you login as a seperate session… so im kinda stuck. Any help?
It’s not that I have a ‘morbid fear’ of the command prompt, I just don’t want to have to take the time to learn commands for something as simple as turning the volume up and down, or making a video fullscreen…
it just makes more sense for it to be graphical to me.
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There are a couple of desktop-sharing programs, like Krfb, that you could use, but they tend to distort the colors. Unless you have a morbid fear of the command line, SSH is actually pretty easy to use. All you have to do is remember to export your display properly, and enter the name of the program you want and it’s parameters. You can make shell scripts to launch a movie or something automatically, ./300 to launch 300 for instance. if you are really good with scripts, you can even set up a script on your client to automatically connect to the server and then launch the movie.