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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
I know team viewer will control said PCs but I need the Internet access routed threw my main terminal. That's what happens with a Router. You could setup 1 PC to provide Internet access for all other PCs if you really want to. This would save a lot of messing around on my end, updating manually each individual system. Back and forwards. That's a whole different issue, assuming you're talking about controlling multiple systems from one system, something like Remote PC would be the way to go (M$ remote access can't be used on system that do GPU processing) you could then log on & update various systems from the one system. Grant Darwin NT |
Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 |
Sure, anything is possible. It depends though if maintaining a central network server is more work than the individual computers (which still need to be maintained). My first questions are: - Do you want simple internet sharing, or a full server with DHCP etc ? - Where do you want the applications and seti data folders to live, on the client or server drive? - Are the computers similar enough to make things easier, or harder to maintain? - Is the main computer reliable enough to be a server? Since losing that computer affects everything . . . Each computer still needs individual seti IDs as you have now, they can't be combined as single client with a single cache, etc. |
Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 |
I'm still trying to figure out what problem you are trying to solve for maintaining the computers. TeamViewer/VNC work great for accessing remote systems, just as if you were sitting at the computer itself. Or SSH for plain terminal access. BoincTasks is also a wonderful tool for monitoring remote BOINC clients - yes it works on Linux too. So that covers any monitoring and file editing you may need to do to the computers. Maybe you need some batch scripts to do the same task on all computers at once? That can be done with SSH access to them. I'm not sure why a 'community' network is not working for you if they all have access to the net. Unless you are trying to firewall or bandwidth shape their access to the net, there shouldn't be a need to route everything through one computer. Maybe all you need is a network share to make file coping to the clients easier? If I were to put the BOINC data folders for clients on a network share, I would likely use a NAS to increase the reliability of it, since loosing the share while BOINC is running would cause all kinds on problems for the clients attached. NAS would be on it's on UPS with 16 port switch hard wired to each computer - you don't want any disconnects. If the share was a computer, each time it was rebooted (or crashed), you would have to reconnect each share - a real pain! So maybe a network share for file coping is all that is needed? |
Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 |
They are all on the same network it seems, so it should be easy to remote them. decide on TeamViewer or VNC. I use VNC personally only because I never tried TV on Linux. For VNC just search for 'Desktop Sharing' in Ubuntu and activate it. Then install a VNC client (EDIT: I use TightVNC) on your main monitoring computer to connect to it. For TV it is much the same I believe - just download and install. they are both similar. TV for Windows was much easier to access hosts from the outside internet world (no router config needed). ... From there just save/bookmark that connection for easy access next time, then they are just a click away to connect to them again. |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
The problem I had what has thus been solved was I could not get access to the internet from all PCs on my Network except the one main PC I use on a daily basis. I wanted to route all internet traffic from all other PCs on my network what is sitting on my LAN on my side of the network threw my one main terminal. Why wouldn't you just use a router? That's what it is designed for. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
The problem I had what has thus been solved was I could not get access to the internet from all PCs on my Network except the one main PC I use on a daily basis. I wanted to route all internet traffic from all other PCs on my network what is sitting on my LAN on my side of the network threw my one main terminal. And pretty much every modem I've come across for years now is also a router. Some might only have a single Ethernet port (and wireless support), but then all you need is a switch for the extra Ethernet ports & the router (in the modem) takes care of everything else. EDIT- the last 5 modems I've had over the last 10 years have all had 4 Ethernet ports, the last 2 are GbE (Gigabit Ethernet). Grant Darwin NT |
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