Re: [uug] Remote Desktop Connection

Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:57:41 -0800

Sorry for the confusion. All I want to do is connect to my linux box from my windows 2000 laptop remotely. I would prefer a GUI environment as apposed to the ssh command line solution. I heard you can open a gui interface through ssh, but I can't get that working. That would probably be the most secure. (I think I could use cygwin on windows for that solution?) I really just want the most secure gui-type remote connection available. I just want to be able to connect to my home machine while I'm away. The laptop I am using was provided by my work, and they don't want me installing a bunch of my own applications.

I really appreciate your help. Any additional advice would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

john


Casey T. Deccio wrote:
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 12:04, John Noll wrote:

Thanks for the tips. I thought I had rdesktop and tsclient installed. Is there something I need to do to start a service or something?

thanks,

john


John-

Maybe I don't understand your problem.  From what I understand, you
would like to use Remote Desktop Connection on your Win2000 machine to
connect to a linux VNC desktop session running on your RedHat 9 box.

If this is correct, you will need to download a VNC client for your
Win2000 machine (http://www.realvnc.org), start a vnc session on your
RedHat box (using KDE desktop sharing or vncserver), and then connect to
your RedHat box from your Win2000 box using the VNC client you
downloaded.  You won't need rdesktop or tsclient for what you are
doing.  Those would be helpful for connecting to a WindowsXP (or
terminal server) box from a linux box.

If my understanding is not correct, please enlighten me. Thanks,

Casey


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