I will be giving my mother a laptop (hopefully) with Kubuntu 10.04 installed.
I want to be able to remotely login to her laptop and control her desktop.
That way I can fix any problems she runs into, such as the need to install
a new application. I could also use it to walk her through any operation
that she is unfamiliar with.
One problem is, mom has no Internet access from her home.
She lives in a very remote location in northern Michigan.
But, I am hoping that when she visits a McDonnalds or a friend's house
where she can get onto their wifi (yes she does get into the big city
occasionally), then I could connect to her laptop (her driving into town is
quicker and easier than me driving 200 miles to her house).
However, in the above scenario she would not have an Internet routable IP
address (using NAT) and also no ability (physically, or technically) to set
up port forwarding on the router.
Is there a way to connect to mom under these circumstances?
It appears that TeamViewer http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx
may do it (I have yet to test it), but I was hoping for a native Linux solution
(TeamViewer installs its own instance of Wine and runs on top of that).
TIA,
Lance
I want to be able to remotely login to her laptop and control her desktop.
That way I can fix any problems she runs into, such as the need to install
a new application. I could also use it to walk her through any operation
that she is unfamiliar with.
One problem is, mom has no Internet access from her home.
She lives in a very remote location in northern Michigan.
But, I am hoping that when she visits a McDonnalds or a friend's house
where she can get onto their wifi (yes she does get into the big city
occasionally), then I could connect to her laptop (her driving into town is
quicker and easier than me driving 200 miles to her house).
However, in the above scenario she would not have an Internet routable IP
address (using NAT) and also no ability (physically, or technically) to set
up port forwarding on the router.
Is there a way to connect to mom under these circumstances?
It appears that TeamViewer http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx
may do it (I have yet to test it), but I was hoping for a native Linux solution
(TeamViewer installs its own instance of Wine and runs on top of that).
TIA,
Lance