Remote XWindows

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 04:07:00 UTC 2008


Mike Dwiggins wrote:
> 
>>
> I have been thinking VNC.  My problem is I travel a lot and have to 
> manage a couple of applications that use x-windows control panels for my 
> wife's business and am looking for the most efficient way.
> 
> I can do it quite well if I am home but am looking for the best solution 
> for remote.  Sigh I guess I am going to have to dig into VNC.
> 

VNC will work, but a much nicer way is to install the freenx package on 
the server side and run the NX client that you can download from
http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
You do have to find the ssh key that freenx creates in /etc/nxserver and 
install in the client, though.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com






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