[Tfug] Use laptop as external kbd/monitor?

[Kyle Scofield]

If you can enable serial port access 
on the linux box you can buy a usb serial port for the laptop and get a null modem cable.

--Kyle

-----Original Message-----

From:  "James Hood" <ebenblues at gmail.com>
Subj:  Re: [Tfug] Use laptop as external kbd/monitor?
Date:  Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:14 pm
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To:  "angussf at geoapps.com" <angussf at geoapps.com>; "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>

In order to do this without going through a network, you need to have a 
video input port on the laptop. I've never seen this on a laptop before, and 
some quick googling doesn't turn up anything. Maybe if there's a VGA-in to 
USB adapter out there somewhere, you could do it, but in general, VNC or 
some other network based remote desktop program is the way to go. 
 
James 
 
On Jan 25, 2008 11:53 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <angussf at geoapps.com> wrote: 
 
> Does anyone know of any way to use a laptop as an external 
> keyboard+monitor for 
> systems that are running headless and can't run VNC?  I  have a number of 
> Linux 
> boxes running stripped-down distros as firewalls or as NAS-devices, and 
> it's a 
> PITA to have to lug around a keyboard and a monitor to get to them when I 
> need 
> to troubleshoot beyond what I can do an SSH session. 
> 
> 
> 
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