On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Dan Track <dan.track@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Dan Track <dan.track@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Dan Track <dan.track@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there something fundamental I'm missing? > Maybe. And maybe it's not clear what you are asking to do. If you want to be monitoring those 100 devices, there are great tools like Nagios and Zenoss to give you a single web page to monitor them. For browsing files on the remote devices, the GNOME desktop has gvfs and fuse built in so that you can create a remote file folder over the network using SMB, ssh or ftp. You mentioned PuTTY. If you want to have consoles set up in advance, you can create a configuration file in your home directory, .ssh/config and specify the username, port, special keys or identies, and much more, looking something like: Host example.com User myname Port 8222 LocalForward 8888 localhost:8888 Then, issuing the command "ssh example.com" will do the equivalent of the command: ssh -p 8022 -L8888:localhost:8888 myname@xxxxxxxxxxx much more can be found by entering 'man ssh' or 'man ssh_config' and far more learned at http://www.openssh.org HTH, -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines