On 16/01/2009 01:25, Simon Wears wrote: > My family run Windows XP. I'll have a look into that, thank you for > the link! Setting it up wouldn't be too difficult, my mum gets how to > use a computer and is fairly good at fixing them with simple things, > this is more for the advanced stuff that explaining to her just makes > her utterly confused. > > I recently got myself an iPhone, so I could attempt to use it as a 3G > modem, possibly. Unfortunately, she isn't running Ubuntu yet, but > eventually I'll get her to switch. I'm just waiting for Windows to > kill itself (again) then I can put Ubuntu on it for a week, and she > can decide if she wants to switch. > You're welcome. I'd be interested to know if anyone has managed to remote into an Ubuntu box running on a Vodafone 3G mobile broadband link. I have a customer who is currently on Windows (not legit either by the looks of things) and I have said that they might be worth giving Ubuntu a try as their existing copy is screwed. I'm going to loan them a machine for a week so they can give it a try although it would be handy if I could connect in remotely. I'm just not sure what the options would be. I'm not keen on the idea of setting up OpenVPN so they connect into my network, I just wondered if Vodafone give out real IP addresses and allow certain ports through?
If anyone has any other ideas (or a link to the OpenVPN method) that would be ideal. Ta, Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
