Remote access to Mailscanner

[Kevin Spicer]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:27, Howard Robinson wrote:

>I run Mailscanner on a Linux 9 box.

Funny I thought 2.6 was the latest version of Linux...
Lets assume you mean RedHat ;)

>I have moved office and cannot
>get access to the console as easily.
>Can anyone recommend software to run on an XP or MS2000 box
>that will allow the same graphical interface and functions as on the
>console (KDE)?
>By the way I use Putty as a text interface and file transfer.
>Thanks

God knows what you need a GUI for, The CLI is your friend.  I don't run
any kind of GUI on any Linux server.

Anyhow, you can use WinAxe or VNC (recommend tightVNC).  WinAxe is a
Windows X server.  However X sucks over a low bandwidth link.  VNC
(tightVNC especially) is better over low bandwidth links, and has the
benefit that if your Windows box crashes you don't lose your work on
your linux box.  I've also managed to run X from a cygwin environment
which is handy because you can call ssh with X fordarding turned on
directly from cygwin.  X allows you to run specific apps, whereas VNC
gives you the ful bloated desktop experience.

If you're working over a public network (or even if you're not really)
I'd recommend securing your connection with ssh.  Later versions of
Putty have support for port forwarding.




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