Remote Desktop with VNC?
I'm looking for Remote Desktop options to connect to my server running CentOS v. 5 from my WinXP machine at home.
Any recomendations? |
yum install vnc-server
will give you vnc server just like on windows. also if you go to your System | preferences | internet and network | Remote Desktop there is a lite version installed by default |
As said above, install vnc-server.
Remember to secure your vnc sessions to your server if you do, do this. I personally use SSH tunnels with putty to secure my vnc connections. Then you just need a VNC viewer like RealVNC or TightVNC. |
as a note about VNC on windows localhost address 127.0.0.1 dose not work the VNC documentation
is wrong on this you need the IP address of the windows computer your running the VNC windoze computer |
I don't know where that came from or what exactly that means?
If you set-up an SSH tunnel using say putty to tunnel ports 5901 from the windows machine to the VNC server then in VNC you have to use 127.0.0.1:5901 as the address to connect to, not including the port number will not work... |
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(I can't understand how networking works at all on windoze with this kind of bug ) try it when that fails use the IP address of the local windows computer as the forward to address maybe it's been fixed by now but the only forward to address I could get to work on windows was the IP address of the windows computer forwarding from linux to windoze on windows ping 127.0.0.1 returns host not found putty returns the same thing in short windoze can't find it's own ass with both hands edit I just ran a ping 127.0.0.1 on a vis-stool computer it worked it didn't work on XP so maybe putty can use 127.0.0.1 on vis-stool |
Strange, from experience, windows automatically listens to 127.xxx.xxx.xxx as local loopback connections and in browsers, if you type http://localhost it points at the box itself... So I don't understand what you are really on about I am afraid =/.
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You might look into a PuTTY and XMing setup. I use this to connect to Linux boxes from Windows boxes. It uses SSH and allows for X11 forwarding. This allows you to run nearly anything on your Windows box, remotely.
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