Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba. What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server? Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:> Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server. ?Since Linux is more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some > similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is > not locked up :-) ) with Samba. > > What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the > Linux server?See: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX and http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server Akemi
On 04/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:> Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some > similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is > not locked up :-) ) with Samba. > > What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the > Linux server? > > Todd >Todd, I have been using noamchine for a while now and has worked flawlessly. They have free versions of their server as well as clients for linux, macosx, and windows. http://www.nomachine.com/products.php Hope this helps. Monty
On 4/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:> Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some > similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is > not locked up :-) ) with Samba. > > What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the > Linux server?If you just want file access (all you'll get with samba), winscp might work. For a full GUI desktop, the nicest way is to install freenx from the Centos extras or EPEL repositories and run the NX client that you can download from www.nomachine.com. Note that freenx generates a unique keypair for each install, so you need to paste the contents of the server /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key file into the client configure/key dialog to allow the connection. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On 4/26/2011 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:> Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some > similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is > not locked up :-) ) with Samba. > > What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the > Linux server? > > Todd >Thanks all. I'll give nomachine a try. Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com
On 04/26/11 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:> Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some > similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is > not locked up :-) ) with Samba. > > What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the > Linux server?for connecting to a windows host from a linux host, you want rdesktop. for connecting from a remote windows host (your laptop) through a linux firewall to a protected windows host (your desktop), I would use ssh w/ port forwarding such that you forward localhost:3390 (on the laptop) to windesk:3389 via an SSH connection to the linux host in the middle. For example, using a command line SSH util on your laptop, and assuming your desktop is 192.168.0.10 on the LAN behind the lunix box at 123.123.123.123 ssh -L 3390:192.168.0.10:3389 unixuser at 123.123.123.123 you would then use the Windows RDP client, aka mstsc.exe, on the Laptop, and connect to localhost:3390 to manage the remote windows desktop over this ssh tunnel. you can do much the same with PuTTY or SecureCRT via the GUI connection setup dialogs on the windows laptop. If you want to view the Linux desktop, thats a different problem, best addressed by FreeNX or similar.
On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:25:38 PM Todd Cary wrote:> What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the > Linux server?You've received some good info; let me add to your list the xrdp server app, which allows use of the built-in Windows remote desktop client to log in to the Linux server. A slightly older version is available in RPMforge for C5, and for the upcoming C6 it should be in EPEL or RPMforge (it's in the main Fedora repository).
--- On Tue, 4/26/11, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:> From: Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> > Subject: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 12:25 PM > Currently I have VNC running on my > Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server.? Since Linux is > more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my > Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or > some > similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if > it is > not locked up :-) ) with Samba. > > What is the best VNC like application to install or use on > the > Linux server? > > Todd > > -- > Ariste Software > Petaluma, CA 94952 > > http://www.aristesoftware.comI would say install Xming. ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) Once this is installed on windows, setup ssh session, with a command to run on server side (i.e. linux box) as either /usr/bin/gnome-session or /usr/bin/startkde (depending on your favorite dwm). Using single screen mode configuration, you get your remote gnome desktop on your windows side. No software to install on linux. Alternatively, if you want to work on Linux, and have a windows feel, use rdesktop from linux->windows:: "rdesktop -f -a 16 host.domain.com" To toggle out of full screen mode, use "Ctrl-Alt-Enter" BEST of ALL, you can forward your local disk to remote (window) machine, such that if you saved files locally, you can access them on windows, without a need to samba (reverse samba, sort of). To forward: "rdesktop -f -a 16 -r 'disk:linux=/home/Username' host.domain.com" and your local homedir (in this case) will be mounted on windows as a removable storage.> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On 4/26/2011 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:> Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some > similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is > not locked up :-) ) with Samba. > > What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the > Linux server? > > Todd >WOW! A few choices. in checking the ssh configuration file, I am setup using password authentication - not the best choice. If I change that to NO, is it easy to change my ssh client? One client I use is SSH Tectia. Of course, this will require a change in FreeNX. FreeNX will be my first install. After that I may try some of the other suggested methods. Many thanks to all... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:25:38 -0700 Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:> Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some > similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is > not locked up :-) ) with Samba. > > What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the > Linux server? >The big win for me with NX is that copy and paste between local and remote server works like a charm. I was never able to get *VNC* copy and paste to work at all (or maybe I did once - mists of time, it doesn't work now). That trumps it for me. Mind you - I never tried freenx. g'luck Bob -- Bob Hepple <bhepple at promptu.com> ph: 07-5584-5908 Fx: 07-5575-9550