If a fear of the command line has prevented you from making use of the more secure sftp, Jack Wallen wants to show you how you can easily connect to that remote server, with a simple file manager.

In today's increasingly distributed work landscape, providing remote access to Linux devices is critical for organizations embracing location flexibility. Employees utilizing Linux machines need the ...

For cross-platform remote administration between Windows and Linux, Jack Wallen shows you how to set up TightVNC for connecting both ways.

The terminal is important because it providesaccess to command line utilitiesthe ability to perform SEO hacking on remote machines by opening shells in the cloud, andthe ability to write or ...

So, you can start up vncserver on the remote machine, connect to it from your Windows box, start some long-running process, disconnect and go home, and then check on its progress from your Linux box.

Many, if not most, Linux distributions can be set to start SSH automatically. Linux — like Mac OS X — by extension usually permits the machine to be used as an SFTP server if sshd is running.