Leopard & Fedora 9 screen sharing?

Jeffrey Engle macguy47 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 20:56:16 UTC 2008


On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:01 -0700, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
>> Here's what I'd like to do, I brand new to fedora and a user of mac  
>> os
>> x for the last 8 years (since OSX first came out), I've heard that
>> fedora is not as virus hungry as windows. I've got a windows machine
>> thats 2 years old and would like to see the desktop of the pc on my
>> mac as well as filesharing and complete control of the headless PC...
>> any good, simple instructions out there for doing this? Thank you....
>> and if fedora isn't suited for this, can someone tell me? Jeff
> ----
> Fedora has 2 options to share it's screen with Macs or PCs...
>
> freenx or VNC
>
> The client applications for freenx are available from
> http://www.nomachine.org and the client applications for VNC are
> available from http://www.realvnc.com/products/download.html (the Mac
> version is called something like Chicken of the VNC).
>
> installation of freenx is something like 'yum install freenx-server'  
> and
> the generally vnc server application is automatically installed ('yum
> install vncviewer' for the client).
>
> Instructions on configuration of freenx-server and vnc server are
> available via google.
>
> Craig
>

So, Craig, if I understand you correctly, all I need is the "Client  
application" of either of these to screenshare on my mac? (looking at  
my mac's monitor and seeing the pc)? Jeff




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