On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Joe Pruett wrote: >> But I would like to be able to have the equivalent of a remote desktop for >> the Fedora box running on my Vista machine so I can use Fedora's GUI >> interface from the Vista machine. >> >> I looked at Xming as my X windows software, with PUTTY, but that seemed like >> it had a very steep learning curve. Freeware is important for this >> home/student project. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated! > > the quickest was is vnc. run vncserver on the linux box and then connect > with vnc from windows. i don't know if fedora will default to a full > desktop or simple one, but after you've run vncserver once you can edit > .vnc/xstartup and easily have it start the full deal.
>From Fedora's command line, run: vino-preferences and configure your remote access rules. You'll also need to create a firewall rule to allow the connection (I assume you understand the liability of opening a remote desktop port on the host's firewall): iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 5900 -j ACCEPT _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
