[Fedora] Re: Remote Desktop on FC8

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Fri May 2 16:53:30 UTC 2008


Rick Stevens wrote:
> Forgive me if I've come to the party late, but if you want to work with
> your Windows desktop remotely from a Linux machine, the Linux machine
> must be running an X server (and if you're running in GUI mode, you
> do).  Once that's established, there's two primary protocols you can
> use:
    Wrong direction.

> If you're trying to work the other way around (using Windows to play
> with a remote Linux machine) and you want the native Linux desktop, you
> either must use an X server on Windows (not free) or use VNC, but
> placing the server on the Linux box ("yum -y install vnc-server").
    This is what I was asking.  And it's been resolved already.

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