With the new environments under Ubuntu, as well as Gnome 3, it was impossible to establish a graphic session using NX. The problem were in the 3D thing of the new desktops. All I could get working was TeamViewer, and it is not very good, considering the fast connection I have with the server, and the fact that they nag you for money all the time. Are there special configurations I should use under NX to get it working ? On the No-Machine.com site, they are also talking about problems on the later versions of Ubuntu, but they only talk about versions 11 and up. A bit old, as far as I know. This parameter for the classic desktop did not work for me.
I don't mind re-installing the server for this, in order to clean it up of possible bad/demains of config files, but I am looking for something that is working. I currently use Windows XP at work (yes, I'm at the Government, so what else can I expect..............). That might be a subject for discussion at the next meeting, for those interested....... Thanks again !!! JF --- Le code source libre c'est l'ouverture de l'esprit. Open Source is open minded. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Remote desktop for Ubuntu 13.10 From: "Wm. Stewart" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, November 04, 2013 4:00 pm To: Martin Settle <[email protected]>,Jean-Francois Messier <[email protected]> Cc: OCLUG <[email protected]> We found VNC only usable on high bandwidth networks. We use NX and find it about 100 kbps down and 20 up! Several FOSS NX servers and clients at http://freeopensourcesoftware.org Martin Settle <[email protected]> wrote: Haven't used it recently, but while working with multiple offices in the UK I was having pretty good success with VNC. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC There are clients (and servers) available for Windows machines. TightVNC was the one I was using. Good luck. Marti. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Jean-Francois Messier <[email protected]> wrote: For the last few versions of Ubuntu, I was having increasingly more problems getting a remote desktop working properly from a Windows client. Here's my problem: I have serveral Ubuntu-based computers (Desktop edition, not server), and those are virtual ones, running on a remote box. Although I can do many things using the CLI, there a retimes where I need the GUI, from a Windows-based client. I tried the NX-based solution, with not much success (also the client was flagged as infected by our andi-virus). I also tried the straight RDP client, using the xrdp service installed under Ubuntu. In both cases, I was ending up with a blank desktop, without even a button to log out. I had to ssh to remotely kill the process. What is recommended for such setup ? Thanks :-) JF --- Le code source libre c'est l'ouverture de l'esprit. Open Source is open minded. Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux -- Bill Stewart, CEO http://CirrusComputing.com/ [email protected] 1-613-797-7744 _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
