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Originally Posted by xirtyllo
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I would like to log-in into my home Linux PC from my PC at the office where i work...
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I guess i will need some kind of remote shell service in my home Linux PC, and some kind of client on my office Windows PC (either native windows, or usable via Cigwin..) all being able to operate just through http protocol...
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There are really two issues
- How does your computer at work find your at-home machine?
- Once your machines find each other, there are two issues.
- Which server software do you run at home to catch the connection from your at-work workstation?
- Which client software do you run at work to interact with your at-home server?
There are numerous commercial services that offer "dynamic DNS" support. You subscribe to a name, use workstation A to dance their dance, regardless of which IP address workstation B received from your ISP, the service finds workstation-B and connects.
If you are old-school, SSH gets you a command prompt on the at-home machine. You then open a tunnel and run X11 back through the pipe. What does this let you do? Consider your at-home desktop. It is an X11 suite. You could have much of that running in an X-server back on your at-work workstation. I don't mean to put down this approach by saying "old school" simply that it has been around forever.
A recent development is VNC (virtual network console). I would start here. There are many freeware editions of VNC clients for win-doze.
If you want remote access to GUI things, you will need lots and lots of bandwidth. I discourage you from running a GUI desktop or similar complication remotely (maybe in your house on 1000baseT copper).
Whatever you accomplish, please remember to thank folks who helped you and share your success or additional troubles with the community and mark your questions SOLVED if they are resolved.
Good luck,
~~~ 0;-Dan
