VNC is a protocol for interacting with a remote desktop. What the VNC server does regarding new sessions depends on which server you choose.<div><br></div><div>X11VNC, for example, lets you access an existing X11 session over VNC (good for remote tech support settings), as does Gnome's vino.</div>
<div>linuxvnc shares an existing text terminal the same way X11VNC shares an existing X session.</div><div><br></div><div>Other VNC servers create their own sessions. The VNC servers that can be found in Debian that create their own sessions include tightvncserver, and vnc4server.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Matt Holland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdholland@ucdavis.edu">mdholland@ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On Dec 25, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Peter Salzman <<a href="mailto:p@dirac.org">p@dirac.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Thanks Gilbert. I'll check that out now.<br>
><br>
> Just out of curiosity, it's not clear what VNC does. Is it a remote<br>
> desktop that gives you what's going on in the console (what I don't<br>
> want)? Or does it give you a new X session (what I want).<br>
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> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Gilbert Coville <<a href="mailto:lugod2008@gc.org">lugod2008@gc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Take a look at NX. (<a href="http://www.nomachine.com" target="_blank">www.nomachine.com</a>). That gets you a new session, different<br>
>> from what's happening on the console.<br>
>><br>
>> Gilbert<br>
>><br>
>> On Dec 25, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Peter Salzman wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Sometimes when I work on my WinXP box I want to use my Linux box<br>
>>> without being in front of the computer. What I'd really like is to<br>
>>> graphically remote login to Linux/KDE from WinXP, as in, open up a<br>
>>> window containing a KDE login session from my WinXP box. I'm already<br>
>>> running MingW, and can use remote X apps like xeyes via Putty.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I tried using Putty (with X-Forwarding and running /usr/bin/startkde<br>
>>> upon login) but KDE crashes, and the problem seems pretty complicated,<br>
>>> so I'd like to try a different way.<br>
>>><br>
>>> My wife is almost always logged into the Linux box and is using KDE.<br>
>>> I don't want to share her session, but use my own session.<br>
>>><br>
>>> What the easiest/best ways of doing that?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks!<br>
>>> Pete<br>
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