Another option which gives you VNC-ish sessions which stay alive, and can be re-joined if you disconnect is NX/freenx. I've only used it under Fedora and CentOS, and kind of a pain to set up, last I tried. But it's MUCH faster than VNC, and worth looking into.
At 12:21 PM 4/27/2009, MJang wrote: >On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 11:39 -0700, Tim Wescott wrote: > > > > > That's what Ubuntu has me set up with. I've further found out that > > everything is fine when I connect to just _look_ at the desktop, but I > > want to sit in my living room with my laptop and do work on this machine > > (my office is in a detached building). > >First, I haven't worked Intrepid, I'm using Hardy. > >I do something similar to what you do. For that purpose, I prefer SSH >instead of VNC; I log into the remote system with: > >ssh -X usern...@remotesystem > >which allows me to tunnel individual GUI apps if/when needed. I find it >faster - and easier to set up - than VNC. > >And there's a third option - XDMCP logins - I have a local VMware Server >system with a GDM login screen. The remote (office) system also has a >GDM login screen, with XDMCP enabled. > >But that assumes you can access remote logins from the Intrepid login >screen. (Put the cursor in the username text box, and press F10. I hope >you see a Remote Login via XDMCP option.) > >Thanks, >Mike > >_______________________________________________ >PLUG mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
