Thursday, November 15, 2012

remote desktop from SNF

Hi All,

I saw somebody today on one of the terminals with a remote desktop session.

I looked around a bit and figured out this was done with the command 'rdesktop' but it didn't seem to be installed by default.
I downloaded the source and tried to install it but it seems I don't have permission to create a directory in /usr/local/bin.

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. I'd be super useful to be able to remote desktop to my office computer while i wait for processes to finish instead of having to bring in my laptop everytime.
How i can gain permission to install this? (I think this is done by first using the 'su -' command which then prompts for a password)

Thank you for your time,

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Edgar A. Peralta 
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
Department of Applied Physics
M: 954.940.2700

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