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Calling all the HEAVY hiters. VoidMan, creedon and others for support
Bazoukas:
Allright here is what this post IS NOT. Lets start from there.
I wont ask a "take me by the hand and show me the roses momy" how to.
This is a very good chance to dazle the shit out of the Windows kiddies.
What I will need is pointers on what information about my system I should give and in general some good pointers on how to accomplish the fallowing.
In my intermediate C++ class they asked us to do a presentation of a program that we will make.
Now I talked to my teachers and ask them if they are willing to do this: Pull out one of their PCs and let me use it as a terminal so I can connect with my PC and do my Presentation using via their computer.
Presentation will entail, to use My computer's compiler so i can compile and run the program and use Open Office to show the pseudocode.
Now my teacher told me on our very short conversation, that It might be a bitch if i wanna use my compiler. Maybe I didnt give him a clear view of what I want.
In plain english. I want WIndows2000 at school to connect with My linux Box and do a direct connection and do my presentation, with out using ANY of the apps that my schools computer has. I hope I am making sense here.
My question now is this.
What info should I give my teacher? What kind of configuration info in other words. Is there an app out there such as VNC (Virtual Network Computing, it rins on windows) that lets you connect to another PC easily with out alot of hassle?
If not, again, what kind of info I should give my teacher and what should I look at on how to configure my system?
I am not obligated to do all that. I can simply connect on my server and copy and paste the code and compile it on Win2k.
BUT IT WOULD BE FUCKING COOL IF DIRECT CONNECTION COULD BE ESTABLISHED between my computer and my school. AND DAZLE THEM CAUSE ALL OF THE STUDENTS IN MY CLASS DONT KNOW FUCKING JACK SHIT......PERIOD!!!!
Thank you guys for just even reading this.
George.
[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]
voidmain:
You have several choices but I would assume you have a good reliable connection to your home computer at decent speeds, especially if you want to do graphical presentation. Most Cable/DSL modems do not have stellar "upstream" capabilities. They may have 1.5Mbps downstream but upstream is usually limited to 128k or 256k max. Even then there are many possible choke points between your home machine and your school's machine.
Having said the above, a 14.4k modem connection is *more* than enough if you don't intend on doing any remote graphical work and only use command line stuff. You would use ssh for this (get putty.exe from http://www.openssh.org/ for the windows machine you want to access from).
For graphical work the easiest thing that you probably do is turn on the VNC server on your Linux box. You can vnc into your machine and get a remote desktop. I personally do not like VNC to remote control an X session but it will work. Another option is to install Cygwin with the win version of XFree on the Win box. You can then turn on XDMCP on your Linux box and get a graphical X login on your desktop at home just as if you were there and you can log in and get the same desktop that you get when you log in to GDM on your machine locally at home. The Cygwin method is more difficult because it requires the installation of more software on the Win client and some slight configuration of that software.
Do you need graphical access? That is, is the app you are creating a graphical app? If it is not, everything can be done easily from the command line through ssh. Why don't you just ask your teacher if you can wipe that filthy Windows off of one of the machines and install Linux?
Also with Cygwin you can run most of the GNU apps (gcc etc) right on the Win box. See http://www.cygwin.com/
[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
Bazoukas:
Oh I forgot to tell. Sorry I didnt sleep AT ALL last nigh
I have cable. I gave the addy of my server to the students today to check out my speed and I was suprised. For cable it was very damn fast.
This will be a graphical presentation. Thats how my teacher asked it.
And the programs that I want to run are, Anjuta and OpenOffice. That might bog the connection down huh.
I will try to see what happens with your programs, by connecting my laptop and Main PC with those programs, through dialup. But i understand what yo are saying about the in between choking points.
And trust me when I brought two CDs with RedHat to a student, I booted up from the CDROM and showed him the initial steps on how to set it up. I was that close to hit that Next button and erase the shit out of Windows.
:D
Master of Reality:
my cable modem has 3 mb/s up and 2 mb/s down.... odd.
Cant X run through ssh???
You should ask the teacher to isntall Linux on one of the PCs, like void main said.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
my cable modem has 3 mb/s up and 2 mb/s down.... odd.
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That is odd... and hard to believe...
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Cant X run through ssh???
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Only if you have X running on the client and a *real* ssh. You certainly can not just install putty.exe on a win box and then execute remote X apps. You need an Xserver for those apps to display. You might be able to boot a Knoppix CD and do it.
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