Folks I'm looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a Centos 7 server from a Windows client. I have tried: - X2go from EPEL (fails immediately, apparently they are working on a solution, but...) - Freenx (doesn't exist for EL7) Both the above work fine with Centos 6. I'm looking for a solution that works over the internet from afar. My earlier posting failed to mention this. Are there any known working solutions? Thanks... Mystified but not urgent in San Francisco David
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:59:28 -0800 david wrote:> I'm looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a Centos 7 server > from a Windows client.> I'm looking for a solution that works over the internet from > afar. > Are there any known working solutions?I tunnel vnc over ssh when using it at a distance. There are numerous tutorials online that will tell you how to do this. The one and only time I set this up to run on a Windows machine, I used a program named putty to create a ssh connection to Centos server machine, and then ran the tightvnc client program on the Windows machine. "yum install tigervnc-server" gets you what you need on the server side. Putty and tightvnc for Windows are available for download from their respective websites. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:59 PM, david <david at daku.org> wrote:> > I'm looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a Centos 7 server from a > Windows client. I have tried: > - X2go from EPEL (fails immediately, apparently they are working on a > solution, but...)X2go works, just not with Gnome3. Use KDE or MATE from epel. Also, there was a bug in a recent x2goserver package that would fail if you didn't have the x2goserver-xsession package installed. The fix for that was done but I don't know if it ever got out of epel-testing. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Do you need a full blown desktop? Otherwise you could just tunnel some X11 app via SSH (eg firefox, virt-manager). -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message -----> From: "david" <david at daku.org> > To: centos at centos.org > Sent: Monday, 17 November, 2014 03:59:28 > Subject: [CentOS] Remote Desktop Recommendations (2)> Folks > > I'm looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a Centos 7 server > from a Windows client. I have tried: > - X2go from EPEL (fails immediately, apparently they are working on a > solution, but...) > - Freenx (doesn't exist for EL7) > > Both the above work fine with Centos 6. > > I'm looking for a solution that works over the internet from > afar. My earlier posting failed to mention this. > > Are there any known working solutions? > > Thanks... > > Mystified but not urgent in San Francisco > David > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos