[nzlug] Best approach for remote-admin of a Debian box

[Les Ferguson]

Andrew Errington wrote:
> Getting back to the subject- do you need more than a shell to admin a
> Debian box?[1]  If not, all you need is ssh.  Your uncle needs to know how
> to discover his own IP address and let you know, but I think this is
> preferable to relying on a system like dyndns- one less thing to go wrong.
>  In fact, your uncle doesn't need to know how- you do, so you can tell him
> how.
> 
> I also don't think you mean remote-admin.  You mean shared desktop, so you
> can control your uncle's cursor and see exactly what state his desktop is
> in (hence why he called you...).

Quite right, I do really need to see what he is seeing on the desktop. 
Part of the beauty with giving him a Debian desktop was, he knew nothing 
about pooters, and didn't need to learn much more than using a browser 
and email.  He sometimes wonders why his friends with another O/S have 
so many problems :)

I should be able to set something up to discover the IP.  Then it looks 
like I will be learning up on FreeNX.

Thanx
Les.