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Old 03-02-2012, 12:26 AM   #1
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viewing other computers on LAN


Hi,


I have used a very good program "Ultra VNC" in windows for logging into other computers on the LAN.

Please suggest any good program for use with Linux(RHEL4).
 
Old 03-02-2012, 02:15 AM   #2
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VNC is a virus. Don't use it. Why are you not using remote desktop on windows??

There are plenty of vnc viewers and servers for Linux if you look, all bundled with just about every distro.

Personally I would suggest using nx from nomachine.org as a much better alternative to VNC's crap.
 
Old 03-05-2012, 03:06 AM   #3
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VNC is a virus. Don't use it. Why are you not using remote desktop on windows??

There are plenty of vnc viewers and servers for Linux if you look, all bundled with just about every distro.

Personally I would suggest using nx from nomachine.org as a much better alternative to VNC's crap.
Thanks for your reply, will try nx.
 
Old 03-31-2012, 01:27 PM   #4
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If you prefer VNC you can use 'x11vnc' as server and 'vncviewer' as client. Just find out in what packages they are ('x11vnc' and 'tightvnc' for arch linux).

For instance, how I used it:

I had PC (192.168.1.5) with X11 session running at display :0, sshd and x11vnc installed.
On laptop I run:
> ssh -t -L 5900:localhost:5900 192.168.1.5 'x11vnc -localhost -forever -scale 800x600 -unixpw -display :0'
.....
and from another tty (I use gnu screen. If you know how to properly redirect it to /dev/null or to some log file, tell me I had faults with it)
> vncviewer -compresslevel 1 -quality 5 -encodings "tight copyrec" localhost:0
 
  


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