On 06/02/11 09:56, mike wrote:
Run tightvncserver on each machine.

VNC used to be considered to have a pretty weak password encryption
algorithm.

Tunnel thru SSH if you're paranoid.

This is the right answer. Once you have an SSH server, you can
use it to tunnel almost anything else pretty securely. Unless
you're on Windows, but only a madman would put a Windows machine
directly on a public network, no matter what software you use.
If you want to access Windows boxes, put a secure SSH server in
front of them. Some routers will do the trick.

Clifford Heath (who did this for a while for a living... for a
bank... for the public to move $$$ around)