VNC from Windows machine to Fedora box

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Jan 6 10:06:32 UTC 2008


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> My mother uses Windows XP Professional Edition at home. I'd like to
> connect to her computer with my Fedora box. Apparently, Windows has
> some sort of built-in VNC server, but how can one connect to it from
> Linux? This machine is Fedora Core 6, but I can upgrade it to Fedora 8
> if need be. Thanks.

Don't know anything about a built in vncviewer on XP.  I just load up 
RealVNC (including the server part) on XP and enable the server to start 
when the system starts.  Granted, my XP is internal to my network so there 
is very little security concern.




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