Software for controlling Windows 7 PC from Linux Mint over WLAN

Question

I currently want to deploy my existing git-annex repository on a new computer.

My configuration is the following one:

• on serverA: I have a git bare (with git-annex) repository and no actual files
• on serverB: I have an classical git-annex local folder which contains the actual (heavy) files (synced with serverA's repository)
• on serverC: I want to create a new git-annex repository and copy the files from serverB on it

Notice that I am not able to clone directly from serverBon serverC.

I follow the process:

• on serverC: git clone ssh://serverA/<path> after I run git annex init origin and git annex sync
• on serverB: git remote add NEW ssh://serverC/<path>, git annex sync NEW and it works. But when I want to copy the actual (heavy) files using git annex sync NEW --content, no file are copied and I have for each file the following error: copy <file> (unable to check NEW) failed.

Any idea of the raeson of these errors (notice that debug mode provide no additional information)?

Notice that all servers use version 8.xx of git-annex

Solution 1

There are many options, all free: vnc is surely one of them. There are many programs implementing vnc as both server and client, and they can be freely mixed.

You may look up RealVNC or tightvncserver as a server (the one running on the Windows pc), and to the same programs or others like them (vncviewer, x11vnc, remmina, krdc, ...) as a client.

Alternatively, you may use RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), the protocol invented by Microsoft to allow sessions between pcs natively, which is simpler since this does not require setting up a server on a Windows machine, all you have to do is to allow remote sessions (the instructions on how to do this depend on Windows version, you may just Google Windows allow Remote Desktop connections). In this case, a good client for Linux is rdesktop.

Solution 2

Enable remote desk top in windows

Then you can use rdesktop from terminal

eg :- rdesktop 10.4.0.16

Solution 3

You could try some vnc software, there are a few available for free. Head over to TeamViewer or RealVNC

Comments

[Ufoguy]

Team viewer is not really a good choice here because they route the traffic through their servers. Waste of bandwidth. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Gaurav Joseph]

I have not seen it since a few years(i mean teamviewer) but there used to be an option for using it over local network.

[Rik]

According to the documentation it will automatically switch to the best direct connection. So only* if there is **no direct connection possible between the two computers, traffic will run through the Teamviewer proxy. Otherwise only the initial communication to establish a direct connection is through the Teamviewer-server after which a direct connection is made between the two computers for the actual remote-control.