The Scottish Boinc Team

So - no keyboard, no mouse, no monitor, no TeamViewer

As long as you have a network connection and have sshd running, you can do almost anything from another Linux machine. On your workstation ..

ssh -Y root@remoteMachine - gets you a shell prompt on the remote machine and the Y parameter sets up the environment to display graphics on your own workstation. Then it is just a case of knowing the commands used by the linux desktop.

e.g.
# gnome-control-center network runs the X11 client to setup the network on the remote BUT displays the whole thing on your own workstation

You can also install a desktop version of OS, setup VNC server, Teamviewer or other remote desktop app. Then remove monitor, keyboard, mouse and move it where you want. It's still headless.

Yup - not the only way but I like the near-zero footprint when it is only ever used very infrequently. Works great on freeBSD and Rasp Pi too

This is really handy - lets you connect to WLAN from the bash CLI

ssh -Y root@remoteMachineOnWiredLan

nmcli radio wifi on; sleep 30; nmcli d wifi connect YOUR-WIFI-SSID password YOUR-WIFI-PASSWD
after that, # gnome-control-center network will see it.

/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk