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Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Rick Golden
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Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Rick Golden

Overview of this book

<p>With increasing interest in Maker Projects and the Internet of Things (IoT), students, scientists, and hobbyists are using the Raspberry Pi as a reliable, inexpensive platform to connect local devices to Internet services.</p> <p>This book begins with recipes that are essential to installing the Raspberry Pi and configuring it for network access. Then it continues with recipes on installing common networking services such as firewalls and file sharing.</p> <p>The final chapters include recipes for network monitoring, streaming data from the Raspberry Pi to IoT services, and using clusters of Raspberry Pis to store and analyze large volumes of data.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Remote access to the monitor (x11vnc)


This recipe enables remote access to the Raspberry Pi's monitor using xrdp.

Using x11vnc, teachers, support engineers, and hobbyists can access the desktop session currently displayed on the monitor attached to the Raspberry Pi. Teachers can use the remote desktop access to help students complete an assignment. Remote support engineers can help a Raspberry Pi user debug, install, or configure software. And, hobbyists can use xrdp to access the Raspberry Pi attached to the living room TV from another room.

After completing this recipe, you will be able to use xrdp to remotely access the desktop session currently displayed on the Raspberry Pi's monitor.

Getting ready

Ingredients:

An Initial Setup or Basic Networking setup for the Raspberry Pi that has been powered on. You have also logged in as the user pi (see the recipes in Chapter 1, Installation and Setup for how to boot and log in and the recipes in Chapter 2, Administration for how to log in remotely...