Saturday, November 19th, 2005, 8:34 am
Remote Access from Different Platforms
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CLI anywhere, at any time
CCESS to particular computers can be crucial, especially while travelling. There are a variety of ways for achieving full remote access, though simple, text-based shell access is supported by even weaker devices and light-weight software.
I recently read about someone who thought of handling Web servers from a Palm Treo, using E-mail, which is supposedly a universal API. I consider E-mail to be the wrong tool for a simple task, even if one uses cron jobs and collects the output via E-mail (similar to a hack I once mentioned. Alternatively, shell access can be obtained in one of the following ways:
- Cellular telephones: using CUTs
- Web-based: MindTerm, e.g. from Duke University
- Windows: PuTTy
- Windows mobile: I have seen an SSH client in action and it looked quite clean
- UNIX variants and derivatives: Built-in functionality
- Palm O/S:
pssh, free and apparently based on PuTTy, though it is hard to tell for sure - Blackberry: For that, one might have to pay nearly $100. That’s the chance one takes when steering away from Open Source. Palm may not be Open Source-oriented, but its users’ ideaology differs.
November 21st, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Any free suggestions for the HP iPAQ. I found a shareware one which was limited ot 5 minutes of use, but that was not very nice to use for other reasons (can’t recall what).