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Is there a more lightweight solution? Like, some ssh frontend? I'd like to help my mom cleaning up her Windows computer because she's not very tech savvy. I can of course just screen share on some messaging app but it'd save so much time if I could have control.

I'm not going to be reacting to answers advising me to install a Windows esque distro on her computer.

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[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Bonus points if you encapsulate VNC in SSH, which would help keep your session secure regardless of the VNC password length

  1. Initiate a ssh session with -L 5900:server name:5900

  2. Start a vnc server on the server

  3. Connect to vnc on localhost:5900 and authenticate

Best advice that I forgot to include because it's been a while since I needed VNC for anything. @akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone, please follow @ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone's advice here!

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Mighty! Thank you both! 😊

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