Hi forum!

The new version of Slack is on the doorstep and soon it's time to clean up my box.

What is your remote desktop server of choice?
I require a few things:
- Linux side server that starts up on boot
- Windows and linux side client
- Preferably attachable to a running desktop session, although I can live with a server that starts up X
- Semi-effortless setup on Slackware (with slackbuilds, maybe)

This far I've used x11vnc, but we don't get along all the time. I was interested to try teamviewer, but so far I didn't find information how to use it as standalone server.

I use VNC almost all the time. You can not attach to the X session that is running on the console but that does not interest me anyway. With VNC I can run X sessions 24/7, separate from anything else that may or may not be running on the box.
Slackware has tightvnc in /extra but nowadays I prefer tigervnc (http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/tigervnc/ for packages).

VNC clients are abundant. I use them on Windows, Linux, Solaris, even my Android phone.

Eric

You can also use TeamViewer

I use FreeNX quite often I love it.
It works very well even on low bandwidth / high latency internet connections.

AlienBOB was kind enough to provide the packages for us
A windows client lives here

Actually, you can do that, with x11vnc

I use ether tigervnc from Alien or FreeNX. So far FreeNX is my choice for outside connections and tigervnc inside my lan.

No Machine Free Free Edition( two user limit )

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

Thanks for all the input! I just got my box updated to 13.37 (over an ssh connection, mind you ). I'll do some testing with all the suggestions.

Much appreciated!

RealVNC Enterprise