Hi,

I want to connect to remote Linux desktop (on LAN) from my Windows PC.

Linux is running Fedora Core 3.


I have VNC server installed on Linux computer and TightVNC viewer on Windows computer.

But when i connect to Linux desktop from my Windows, i do not get the real desktop, i get a screen with Terminal. This is same like SSH, can't call it desktop :-(

http://imagehost.bizhat.com/users_th...otlink_vnc.jpg

I want to access "gnome" desktop of the Linux PC from my Windows computer, is there any way to do this ?

Thanks,

Yujin

Check out Freenx. Software available at:

http://nomachine.com/

I just got this installed yesterday - works great, nice performance!

jmeadows111, is it free ?

I can't find free version on the site

Downloaded "nxclient-2.0.0-93.exe" for Windows.

Also downloaded nxmanager-2.0.0-37.i386.rpm from

http://www.nomachine.com/select-pack...?os=linux&id=1

The linux side software is free to download ?

Can you give the download link of the file you installed ?

Thanks,

Yujin

You need to install FreeNX on your Linux computer.

Here is the link I used:

http://www.nomachine.com/select-pack...?os=linux&id=3

thanks spooon for the reply, i really need spoon feed :-)

jmeadows111, i have installed nxserver, nxnode, nxclient on Linux. Can you tell me how do i start it ?

Hi again:

I am assumng you have ssh installed already.

You will need to add whatever user you want to log on as so that nxserver will recognize it:

/usr/bin/nxserver --adduser user1

The user must already exist on the system.

Then you will need to run /usr/lib/nx/nxsetup and that should start the server at the end of th process. To be sure, run /usr/bin/nxserver --start

You may need to run "xhost +" to enable remote display, then at that point you should be able to try connecting from windows (once the windows client has been installed)

Good luck!

When i try adding user, getting following error

Any idea how to fix it ?

What I would try is creating a user outside of nxserver (if you're not doing it via the command line the gui you use may vary depending on what distro you are using.) At the command line (for example):

sudo adduser nxremote

then

/usr/bin/nxserver --adduser nxremote

Thanks jmeadows111 for the help. Got it working now. It seems nxserver needs KDE to work. I tried on two Linux PC on one it got working with KDE, other do not have KDE installed and is showing error

try just installing all the standard KDE libs, then try again, many KDE progs will work with Gnome if you have the KDE libs installed

Hi again:

I have it working with Gnome (running Ubuntu dapper drake), and as dasy2k1 said, you can run KDE app's in Gnome with libs installed, for example I'm a big fan of the CD burning app K3B, and it works fine.