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I buy a lot of Anbernic handheld devices. I have a Windows gaming machine with a 4TB hard drive full of ROMs. Problem is the handheld devices usually have an OS with an EXT4 filesystem whereas of course Windows is NTFS. This makes copying over the ROM's via USB somewhat impossible.

My idea is to put Puppy on a USB key, boot from it on the Windows machine and do the file transfers in Puppy. But I would also like to remote control Puppy from a laptop downstairs running MX Linux.

So to cut a long story short is there a version of Puppy that has native remote desktop? Something like RDP or VNC? Thank you.

I use Dropbear which I made a PET package for somewhere.........Very simple to set up and it works very well for remote SSH work.

Check this one out....it may work for you... I will also see if I have a newer version assembled and if not may compile a new version today depending on what system it will be used on......

Download and decompress the ZIP file:
viewtopic.php?p=114274#p114274

Direct download => download/file.php?id=22366

@VanZan

If you use BookwormPup64 you can look here for X11VNC_0.9.16-9 VNC remote desktop server:
viewtopic.php?p=109621#p109621

Just search for "vnc" in that topic.

wizard

TigerVNC might be another option......

@rockedge

The TigerVNC client works well in BW64, but the server has issues OOTB.

wizard

@VanZan :- Hallo.... and to the "kennels". Nice to have you with us...

• USB transfer is perfectly possible IF you ensure the flash drive is formatted FAT32. Both Windoze AND Linux can read this natively.

• Any kind of 'cloud' file-hosting a/c will let you transfer between different OSs. It all happens in the browser, and is totally format-agnostic.

• For 'remote desktop' stuff I use an online outfit called DWService. You download a wee piece of code called an agent (this is cross-platform), which downloads a couple more bits of code - Python, I believe - and sets the connection up on the OS you want to share, and gives you a random numeric 'username' and password. You then access this thru DWService's website in a browser on any other machine with the generated 'username' & password.....and there's your remote desktop.

It's real easy to use for the occasional use I give it, and works very well.

https://www.dwservice.net/en/home.html

Perhaps not to everyone's liking, but.....it's super simple, which makes it ideal for a dunce like me!

Another one worth mentioning, and which works in very similar fashion, is GetScreen.me:-

https://getscreen.me/en/

.....which works equally well for occasional use, and is also real simple to use.

Mike.