Chapter 28 - Remote Login and Remote Desktops(TELNET)

• Introduction • Early Computers Used Textual Interfaces • A Timesharing System Requires User

Identification– A timesharing computer system permits multiple users

to run programs simultaneously. Each user is assigned a login identifier and secret password; a user must enter the login identifier and password to use a terminal connected to the timesharing computer.

• Remote Login Resembles Conventional Login • How Remote Login Works

Chapter 28 - Remote Login and Remote Desktops(TELNET)

• Escaping From Remote Login • Displays And Windows• Internet Remote Login Is Called TELNET • Remote Access Can Display a Desktop • How Remote Desktops Operate

– Virtual Network Computing

• Assessment Of Remote Login and Desktops • Remote Login Provides General Access • Generality Makes Remote Login and Desktops

Powerful

Chapter 28 - Remote Login and Remote Desktops(TELNET)

• Remote Login Accommodates Multiple Types of Computers– A remote login service allows a user at one site to

interact with application programs that run on a computer at another site. The power of remote login arises because it allows remote access to application programs without requiring any changes to the programs themselves.

• Unexpected Results From Remote Access– Users must remember that although a remote access

service uses the display, keyboard, and mouse on the user's local computer, the application can only interact with the files and printers on the remote computer.

Chapter 28 - Remote Login and Remote Desktops(TELNET)

• Terms– escape key – login – remote login – TELNET – timesharing computer – window