Windows to Linux Remote Desktop

[MJanofsky]

Hi,
How would I go about connecting to my linux server from a window$ xp machine on the same LAN?

Thanks!!

Michael

[designbydave]

vnc is your friend

www.realvnc.com

my install of Fedora Core 3 has the vnc viewer and server installed. you just need the viewer on windows.

this will work on a mac too

[MJanofsky]

As far as RealVNC goes, I have it installed on my Windows XP Machine, My Fedora Core 3 file server, and another XP Machine. How can I make the Fedora box automatically allow VNC connections from the XP machines?

Thanks!

Michael

[designbydave]

{looks through gonome menu to find the setting}


ah ok here is is:

im running Fedora Core 3 with gnome and under the Prefrences menu there is a Remote Desktop icon. launches command vino-preferences. in there i can set it to allow vnc connections and allow to control with a password.

[yogesh_ny]

HI,
I have a FC3 linux box. I have another XP machine in another room both on the same LAN. I used RealVNC to connect from my windows XP machine to my FC3 machine. Every time I did this it says "unable to connect to host:A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host (10065)" I tried using UltraVNC and TightVNC but the problem persists. On the other hand I was able to connect to the Windows machine from my FC3 box. I could ping to the other system from each of the system. I dont know what the problem is. Please help.
Thanks in advance,
Yogi.

[suthern]

yoesh, look around in FC3 for firewall settings.

here's some links which may help:

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc...ry/049077.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg05143.html

I had the same problem. Decided to edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables (after making a backup first). I just duplicated the line for port 80 and changed the 80 to a 5901. Now everything works just fine.

Of course it would be more secure to tunnel the VNC session over ssh, but if you aren't worried about security (all on your local LAN), this should help.

--

John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own

And for security:

And the easy way to use PuTTY to tunnel VNC over ssh:

http://www.benjamin.weiss.name/putty-tunnel.html

Ben

And a program to configure the firewall in a slightly easier way:

I use GuardDog to handle the firewall configuration. It works better than the
system-config tool. Anyhow, the key to VNC is to know what session/display
the particular VNC server is using, because each maps to a different port.
Display 1 is 5901. Display 2 is 5901, etc.

Get Guarddog at http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/
--
Steve

Also, if you run into a problem like this again, try googling for answers. Sometimes they are closer than you think!

-Suthern

[yogesh_ny]

Hi Suthern,
thanks for the suggestion. I will give it a try.
Yogesh

[Dale Cooper]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for remote desktop from Windows 2000 Server to Linux Fedora Core 1 some days ago, I tried VNC but when I connect, everything I see in the client is a grey background and a console terminal. ¿? I should see Fedora desktop, shouldn't I? Maybe some X problem?

Thanks a lot, and sorry for my bad English.

[eatinglemur]

I see in the client is a grey background and a console terminal. ¿? I should see Fedora desktop, shouldn't I? Maybe some X problem?

It sounds like what you are seeing is twm or something like that. This is not a problem; you can make full use of remote X applications this way.

If you want to change your window manager, edit your ~/.vnc/xstartup file and have it call whatever window manager/desktop environment you want. I strongly caution against using gnome or kde (ie "Fedora desktop"); I prefer to use windowmaker or fluxbox.

[Dale Cooper]

I see in the client is a grey background and a console terminal. ¿? I should see Fedora desktop, shouldn't I? Maybe some X problem?

It sounds like what you are seeing is twm or something like that. This is not a problem; you can make full use of remote X applications this way.

If you want to change your window manager, edit your ~/.vnc/xstartup file and have it call whatever window manager/desktop environment you want. I strongly caution against using gnome or kde (ie "Fedora desktop"); I prefer to use windowmaker or fluxbox.

Fine, thank you very much. But that I need is remote controle windows-linux in the same way that windows remote desktop do, or vnc windows-windows. From my windows, connect to Fedora and see it like I was in front of Fedora machine. Is it possible? I tried editing xstartup in this way:

#!/bin/sh

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
#twm &
kde &

but the result is worse than using twm. I tried with wmaker and it looks like kde.

Thaks a lot.