[vox] Connecting to a 'headless' Windows box (Was re: OLPC XO ("$100 laptop") available to public)

[Scot A]

Bill,
Thank you for the help!
I should be able to do this soon!
BTW, I am trying to get "puppy linux"
to try as well, I am having a time getting it to load?
Namaste'
Scot

On 9/25/07, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:23:07AM -0700, Scot A wrote:
> > Now that I have this unit,
> > I want to connect it to a windows box
> > that does not presently have a monitor
> > or keyboard connected to it.
> > Just how the heck would I do that?
>
> Hey Scot.  I see Henry responded to you off-list about this, before you
> posted here.  His suggestion to look into VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
> is probably your best bet.
>
> It's a set of software that lets one computer view and interact with
> another
> remotely -- sounds like just what you want.
>
> On Linux, I've used a program called TightVNC.  If you're using Debian or
> a flavor of Ubuntu, it should just be an "apt-get install" away.
> (Or, if you prefer using a graphical install tool, like Adept Package
> Manager
> on Kubuntu or, ... uh.. whatever Gnome-based tool 'regular' Ubuntu uses,
> you should be able to find TightVNC easily.)
>
> For example, on my wife's Kubuntu laptop that I'm using now,  I did a
> search
> for the package using a command-line incantation (from a Konsole terminal
> window):
>
>   aptitude search tightvnc
>
> One of the results was:
>
>   p   xtightvncviewer               - virtual network computing client
> software
>
> which sounds like exactly it.
>
> Now, on the Windows side, you'll probably need to hook up a monitor,
> keyboard
> and mouse at least ONCE, to set up the server end of the picture.  What,
> exactly, you need to do there, I'm not 100% sure.  I'll leave it as an
> excerise in using Google.
>
> PS - Two things you did that were bad netiquette.  (1) replied to a thread
> (my posting about the OLPC XO) with an unrelated topic, (1b) did so
> without
> changing the Subject line, and (3) asked a technical question on our
> non-tech-question list -- questions like this are more suited to
> 'vox-tech'.
>
> No harm done, though; easy question, easy answer.  Just realize there are
> something like 150-200 people subscribed to 'vox' who AREN'T interested in
> tech questions, so keeping the Qs on the more appropriate list will keep
> those
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>
>
> --
> -bill!
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Thanks for your support!
Scot Albert
www.hypnotichelp.com
1-530-848-8262
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