[vox-tech] Graphical Remote Login to Linux/KDE from WinXP

[Matt Holland]

It's an X server, so it replaces X.org as the environment that a window manager runs in. So yes, it gives you a wholly different session that is entirely separate from the session you would start from the console.

You will want to make sure that the ports used by VNC are firewalled off, and that you use an ssh tunnel to forward the port to your local machine.

Matt



On Dec 25, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Peter Salzman <p at dirac.org> wrote:

> Thanks Gilbert.   I'll check that out now.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, it's not clear what VNC does.  Is it a remote
> desktop that gives you what's going on in the console (what I don't
> want)?  Or does it give you a new X session (what I want).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Gilbert Coville <lugod2008 at gc.org> wrote:
>> Take a look at NX.  (www.nomachine.com).  That gets you a new session, different
>> from what's happening on the console.
>> 
>> Gilbert
>> 
>> On Dec 25, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Peter Salzman wrote:
>> 
>>> Sometimes when I work on my WinXP box I want to use my Linux box
>>> without being in front of the computer.  What I'd really like is to
>>> graphically remote login to Linux/KDE from WinXP, as in, open up a
>>> window containing a KDE login session from my WinXP box.  I'm already
>>> running MingW, and can use remote X apps like xeyes via Putty.
>>> 
>>> I tried using Putty (with X-Forwarding and running /usr/bin/startkde
>>> upon login) but KDE crashes, and the problem seems pretty complicated,
>>> so I'd like to try a different way.
>>> 
>>> My wife is almost always logged into the Linux box and is using KDE.
>>> I don't want to share her session, but use my own session.
>>> 
>>> What the easiest/best ways of doing that?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Pete
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