[Novalug] Remote computer takeover possible?

[Jason P. Thomas]

Charles M Howe wrote:
> List,
>
> A friend of one of my sons who lives in upper Montgomery County
> occasionally takes over my son's computer to do virus protection, etc.
> They are Windows machines, naturally. Is the same possible with Linux?
> It sounds like a natural for a Knoppix live disk or something spawned by
> it.
>
> "Charlie the Perpetual Newbie AND Charlie the Tireless and Reasonably
> Competent Moocher"
>
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>   
I use rdesktop from my *nix machines to access my windows machines all 
the time.  Conversely, I use tightvnc on my windows machines to access 
my linux machines.  Most the time though, ssh is all I need in the 
windows-> linux direction

--Jay