i should be working (but i'm fixing my computer).

I'm writing this via remote connection to my OpSU desktop from my OpSU netbook.  The connection is via "Teamviewer" which is a proprietary remote system that is free for personal use.  If you have been following my search for decent remote connection software for Linux, you will realize that the normal YAST repositories do not have anything (I have found) that works with anything similar to Windows Server quality. So, super kudos to Teamviewer.  It actually has an OpSU rpm installer (and many others).  The linux version is a single package that is both client and server.  The installer checked the WINE profile and seems to run an exe file (I do not, or at least did not), have WINE installed.  I'm running through a firewall, but I did not have to configure anything -- Teamviewer must run a server that matches up the remote and the host.

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Not only is the connection pretty adequate (my remote sesssion from seems about as fast as the session I did on my own LAN -- but I don't even have "direct connection" enabled, as that requires port forwarding on my router/firewall.  My initial observation is that the performance is roughly the same as my regular windows server connection.

Teamviewer iis available for Windows/MAC/Linux.  Recognizing how small the Linux market is (and that users such as myself will be using the free personal use license), I greatly appreciate the effort Teamviewer made in providing a system (and installers) s0 that Linux users can easily make use of.

Worth mentioning -- unlike my adventures with x11nvc, I have made repeated connections without crashing my server.  AND, I can access my VirtualBox Windows XP session!!!

Lastly, it's really cool to have a high(er) resolution session on my netbook than what the netbook will actually run.  OK, this may be an inaccurate explanation, but the display must be graphical and I get the equivalent of high resolution on my sceen.  I can "scal" which puts the entire remote screen on my netbook screen -- which is very tiny indeed, as I am dropping a 1920 monitor onto 1024.  There are other options - "original" size, which I am using and which gives me a scrolling 1920 windows on my 1024; or full screen.  The other option(s) are to select the full desktop or a single window.

 

Cool.

Later:  Works from Windows.  Executable does not have to be installed, runs on a limited account and can be carried about on a flash drive.  !!!