What about something like goto meeting or join.mehttp://join.me?
Now they aren’t the most accessible if someone wants you to log in to their machine but if someone logs in to yours they can observe you with out much issue and you can choose whether to grant access / share or not. I do this all the time when someone from JTAC wants to work with me on a routing problem.
On Jun 17, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Jen Bottom mailto:jen.bottom@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks all for your suggestions so far.
I may have this wrong, but I think that if a user wants to share their
terminal using screen, they would need to connect directly to my
system, or I to theirs.
This may not be great, as I would have to expose my work machine
perhaps a bit more than it already is. Currently I can only get to it
outside the office via VPN.
It seems that Tmux and Tmate use a server, so potentially I could set
one up in-house and this would be the only thing I would need to
expose.
This is probably not really much of an issue, as if you are sharing a
terminal session with someone, whether it's via a server or not, they
could still potentially do nasty stuff, if you don't keep an eye on
things, but think IT would rather have a separate server they can
control, rather than exposing my Mac.
Any thoughts on this point?
So far I'm thinking Tmate is the tool I will choose, though it
requires a bit more overhead to install than Tmux (you have to add the
PPA first) and Screen is even present on Macs by default.
I feel however, that once it's installed, the commands are perhaps a
little easier to get used to then those of Tmux or screen. Quite a few
customer's who admin the products I need to support in this way, are
not very clued up about the command line at all and are just used to
using WebEx type tools.
Anyway if they really need to show me some stuff, at least now they
have an option :)
Cheers,
Jen.
On 6/12/15, Sean Murphy mailto:mhysnm1964@gmail.com> wrote:
I had issues with screen and using a serial link. I found Voice-over not
reading the whole line from the beginning.
Sean
On 11 Jun 2015, at 12:33 am, Scott Granados mailto:scott@granados-llc.net>
wrote:
+1 on screen, been a big time screen user since the mid 90S.
Disagree on voice over’s usability in term but that’s a personal
preference thing.
On Jun 8, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Bram Duvigneau mailto:bram@bramd.nl> wrote:
Hi Jen,
The boxes you hear are probably due to different terminal sizes. If I
remember correctly, Tmux fills the rest of the terminal with little
boxes if your terminal is larger then the one at the other side. You can
set your terminal size in the Terminal.app preferences on the Mac.
I usually use GNU Screen, but haven't looked in Tmux yet. I thought Tmux
had some features that Screen is lacking, but Screen works well for me
so far so never tried somethign else. Screen draws a horizontal line and
leaves the bottom of the screen empty if your terminal is larger, that
should give less issues. My personal opinion is that VO speech is not
good enough to do serious terminal work, I always prefer a braille
display and BRLTTY for that.
Bram
On 6/8/2015 5:51 PM, Jen Bottom wrote:
Hi,
One of the products I support lives on Linux boxes, so I have been
exploring the possibility of using something like 'tmux' or 'tmate',
for times when it is useful to see what the customer themselves is
doing on their box as they do it.
So far I have found 'tmate' ok, but 'speak' does seem to like reading
out bits of the session from before. reading up from the bottom of the
window seems to work ok though.
Also, if I create the 'tmate' session on my Mac all is good, but if I
connect to someone els's session, VO seems to get very hung up on
telling me about light box drawings.
Any thoughts on the best solutions for terminal sharing are very much
appreciated.
Cheers,
Jen.
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