Leopard & Fedora 9 screen sharing?

Jeffrey Engle macguy47 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 21:31:26 UTC 2008


On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:56 -0700, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
>> 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
> ----
> well - sort of...the clients are free to download for your Mac  
> (Chicken
> of the VNC or nx-client)
>
> The server must be setup (in the case of freenx, it must be installed
> and then set up).
>
> FreeNX is a bit slicker, faster, better. VncServer is already  
> installed
> on your computer and all you need to do is configure it.
>
> Craig
>

Ok, the magic word... configure. How do I do this? (a newbie here) J




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