Thank you for the nice tutorial and the Google search terms.

I read your stuff and I also read several articles that came up from your search link. I have to admit that I am now a bit confused about the best way to do this. In particular, the comments at this post left me with a lot of questions: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Tutorial_For ... E_over_SSH

So far -- just with ssh -- I have been able to open an SSH terminal session to my Linode, and I have been able to connect Nautilus. I was also able to use my local text editor to create and edit files on the Linode. Things got a bit dicey when I tried to edit and copy files that required root permissions. I am not sure how to smoothly handle that.

Am I off base in thinking that I can have the kind of experience I'm used to when I connect to a Windows server with Remote Desktop (or Ubuntu's Terminal Server Client)? Windows 2003 server has a full GUI obviously, and when I connect to a remote Windows server over the Internet, I have an experience almost exactly the same as if I were sitting at the machine. I often run the remote session full screen across dual monitors (1920 x 1200 each) and there are almost no restrictions on the work/tasks I can do on the server.

What I think I understand so far about connecting to my Linode (which does not have a GUI installed) is that if I want this kind of experience, I need to use nomachine.com's NX server. Is that correct?

Thanks for all the help!