HELP! Want to administer RH Linux remotely. HOW?

[Tedson99]

Hi all, could you please shred me some lights as to what solutions I can find for administering/manage Linux.

I want something just like PCAnywhere for Windows, is there such a thing?

If so, GREAT and please tell me!

If not, is there anything similar OR that I can easily administer a Linux server from a remote computer (eg. from home workstation to a Linux server in office)

Thanks everyone and please help me out!

Tedson99

 

[aixmurderer]

What's wrong with telnet or ssh? Or do you want a GUI desktop display?

In that case you need VNC, look at this site:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html

IBM Certified Specialist - MQSeries

 

[ifincham]

Hi,











If you want to use VNC then I'd suggest doing it via ssh as, by default, it isn't that secure. See -->

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html

Also, if you need a ssh client for win32 then try PuTTY -->

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

- that also does plain telnet much better than the M$ default client.











You can also remotely access the X server over IP (assuming one is running) either with or without xdmcp. Without xdmcp you won't get a full-blown remote desktop - only individual X aware apps like xterms. However, xdmcp is udp based and is not really secure (can't be tunnelled via ssh) so is not really recommended except on private networks. See -->

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/

One other option would be webmin which is http based but I wouldn't like to say how secure it is running a session over the public internet unless you use the ssl enabled version. See -->

http://www.webmin.com

and

http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ssl.html

Hope this helps

 

[unixrobot]

I know exactly what you mean and here is the answer:

Redirect your Linux console to serial port, so if network is down you can still do maintenance on this server via modem or Remote Power Unit.

http://www.jcux.com

Make things simple

 

[stratcat]

Try Webmin.

http://www.webmin.com

Built into Mandrake and RH (I think).