When I'm on the road, I use rdesktop on my laptop when I'm booted into Linux
when connecting to the office Vista.  I also use stunnel to increase the
security between the two system.  This way, if I boot into XP on my laptop,
I can do remote desktop through stunnel as well.  

There are examples of using stunnel on the main site, www.stunnel.org.  

We also use stunnel on our IMAP/SMTP and MySQL server.  Fortunately there
are only a few of us that run around outside of the company walls so
certificate handling (creating/revoking) is relatively painless.

Lucas



-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Matthew Rhys-Roberts
Sent: November 19, 2008 7:38 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: [OT] Remote desktop: Linux<->Vista via internet

I wish to operate my Vista work PC from my Linux box at home. I'm still
reading about SSH, rdesktop, various VNC and VPN versions, etc. I'm a bit
wary that Vista doesn't work very well with some of this technology.

It seems I have to set my work PC up as a server, and my home PC would be
the client. Not sure about setting up SSH at either end, however; perhaps
that function is incorporated into the server software?

I think I can cope with configuring home and work routers once it's clear
what ports need opening or forwarding etc.

Has anyone any successful experiences of accessing a Vista PC over internet,
using a remote Linux PC?

Thanks,
Matt
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