[TriLUG] Remote Desktop

[Brian Grawburg via TriLUG]

I had to laugh at, "If this is part of your regular responsibilities, it seems like your IT folks  should be willing to expose whatever it is to your workstation," because I am the IT folks. :-)






Brian Grawburg
Wilson, NC

-----Original Message----- 
> 
>     On Friday, March 31, 2017 2:00 PM, Brian via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>  
> 
>  So this may be a dumb question, but... I think I saw you say it was a 
> web application, because you had to launch Firefox on the remote system 
> to do the thing.
> 
> So...
> 
> Why can't you just do it from Firefox on your local machine?  If this is 
> part of your regular responsibilities, it seems like your IT folks 
> should be willing to expose whatever it is to your workstation, whether 
> that means opening the right firewall port on the server to your IP or 
> whatever.
>