Good Day my Linux Friends! I was wondering if anybody can help me with an interesting project i am working on?

I have an interesting issue in which I have a Lubuntu 14.04, that I am working to set up as a hotspot hub. That means when the banana pi/ rasberry pi is spitting out wifi signal, I can connect to it, a chrome window or ie window will pop up and i can sign in and start manipulating the device?

So essentially a piratebox with a linux system that you can login into.

I am curious if that is possible?? I have scoured the net and haven't found the right thing, anybody know any good projects they can point me too?

I'll guess your answer would be to use teamviewer.

(but I don't really get the question)

I must apologize for not being clear. I guess i am looking for a easy way of connecting to a device that runs on linux through wifi(hotspot)

An example of this is when we connect to a router and set it up, we are actually logging into its own ip address and changing and managing the settings.

I was curious if there were any projects like that with lubuntu or snappy something i would very much like to emulate. Its like creating your very own mini cloud computer that you have to log in and play with, without the internet.

Why don't you log in to the pi via ssh to change configuration files etc...

Thanks Joe! Do you have a project that you can point me to for that? It would be awesome if i can gain some experience doing that. The main issue is having any computer (windows, mac) connect to it via its ip address without any settings edit from your own computer.

Just by typing into the browser of the ip address you can access the splash page of the device, I can use openwrt but that only serves as router functions and doesn't allow for application installs.

Perhaps I am dreaming, and I dont know if its possible. But its like having a linux app store that is emitting through its own hotspot in which i can log into it to download apps for my raspberry pi. Which i can control through the broswer! Lol it sounds impossible, just wondering.

Connecting to your network from an external location (which I gather is what you are referring to) is eminently doable, but there are several moving parts.

If you want to have a graphical connection, then you want a virtual network connection (VNC). The Arch wiki has a good introduction to the concept.

An ssh connection will give you the command-line connection.

In order to connect to your home network from the internet using either method, you will need

• a static ip address from your ISP, or
• an up-to-date note of your current public ip address, or
• a dynamic DNS service such as noip.com

You will also need to open the appropriate incoming port(s) in your router and forward incoming calls from the internet to the appropriate computer. Wikipedia has a nice article on port forwarding. Note that, generally, you can forward incoming calls on a particular port to only one computer. Once you connect to it, you can connect through it to others.

I think what you actually asked for is a connection through wifi, which is a lot simpler. All the dns / port forwarding part only applies if you want to connect to the box from the outside world. If you want to connect two computers on your home lan you do not need any of that.

We need to understand better what you want to do, exactly. The simplest remote access is ssh.
Lets assume you want to connect to ip 192.168.1.105 with user frank. Open a terminal and type

when asked for a password, type frank's user password.

If you want to run graphical applications on the target machine, you can do so by using X-forwarding, when establishing the connection like so:
If you now run a gui application, it will open on your local screen but actually run on the remote machine.
See if you can achieve what you want with this. If it's not enough, trying to run a complete remote session would be step number 2.