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You will find links to all of My Linux Installer's free step by step linux tutorials here. Keep checking back for new guides, and updates, ammendums, and continued series.

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Remote Desktop Client

This step by step guide will walk you through the setup of a remote desktop environment for Linux and Windows, including Home Edition. All the software needed to set up a remote desktop environment is either already included in the operating system, or a link to excellent F/OSS solutions is included. In addition to setting up the RDP and VNC clients in Windows and Linux, this guide also includes rudimentary instructions for setting up one's high speed modem and local area network router. This guide is completed for many versions of Windows and Linux; however, more versions will be added, so if your's isn't listed yet, drop me a line, and I'll make it a priority over other guides and or projects.

Open SSH with shared Screen

Open SSH allows Ubuntu Linux users access to these features:

taken from the OpenSSH features page.

  • Open Source Project
  • Free Licensing
  • Strong Encryption (3DES, Blowfish, AES, Arcfour)
  • X11 Forwarding (encrypt X Window System traffic)
  • Port Forwarding (encrypted channels for legacy protocols)
  • Strong Authentication (Public Key, One-Time Password and Kerberos Authentication)
  • Agent Forwarding (Single-Sign-On)
  • Interoperability (Compliance with SSH 1.3, 1.5, and 2.0 protocol Standards)
  • SFTP client and server support in both SSH1 and SSH2 protocols.
  • Kerberos and AFS Ticket Passing
  • Data Compression

Screen in this tutorial allows Ubuntu Linux users to share a SSH terminal.

taken from the GNU Screen page.

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

Filesharing on a LAN with SFTP

A quick and easy way to start sharing files on a network of Linux Workstations, using SSH's SFTP. This is a great way to start sharing files, and allows you room to grow into a larger more secure setup later on. Keep in mind there are several ways to accomplish this task, and I will cover a few of them, so keep checking back for other methods.