I recently found XMing, a free X server for Windows, providing a useful alternative to VNC for accessing remote Ubuntu desktops. Instructions here.
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Free X server for Windows
Monday, June 16th, 2008Setting up SCP/SFTP chroot access to Ubuntu/x64 server
Monday, February 4th, 2008scponly provides a mechanism to enable secure file-access to a server, with marked improvement over FTP.
scponly can be setup in a) normal mode, whereby the user can see the whole of the file-system of the server, or b) in chroot’ed mode, whereby the user only sees the files the server administrator has granted access to. The latter is what I wanted, but there are a few extra steps required for 64-bit kernel servers. (more…)