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Subject: Re: Laptop as KVM to access RasPi
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:04:52 +0100
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On 11/07/2025 07:30, mm0fmf wrote:
> On 11/07/2025 06:23, David Taylor wrote:
>> On 11/07/2025 01:37, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>>> If I connect the RasPi to my laptop by USB is there any software
>>> which allows my laptop to be KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)?
>>>
>>> PuTTY may work, but it doesn't have graphics.
>>
>> I recall PuTTY having some X11 extension, but I use VNC which, I 
>> suspect, is LAN/WiFi only.
> 
> Setup RNDIS and you have a network connection between the two over USB.

The first search hit on RNDIS for Linux was how they are trying to 
expunge the horribly insecure Microsoft protocol from the Linux kernel!

---druck