control desktop from remote location?

kemical

hi i know of a program in windows that lets you control another windows box live and remotely.

for example i can connect to my win2k server remotely from work and see my server desktop and run lotus notes schedules etc just like i was working locally!

is there anything like that for gentoo/linux for that matter and if so is it in portage?

oh one more thing, i would like to work remotely from work but they only use winNT

so is there a windows client that will connect to a linux box and i can work on my linux box remotely from work?

have to pass the time working 3rd shift

if any of you know how that is

any suggestions would be great!

ty
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DArtagnan · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 4:48 am Post subject:

vnc
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ealfert · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 4:50 am Post subject:

emerge vnc or emerge tightvnc... i ligh tightvnc better... faster because of higher compression.

both VNCs have a client and server for linux and windows.... you can use any combination of client/server (win/win, linux/win, win/linux, linux/linux)

If you are coming from windows, it is similar to pcanywhere...
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kemical · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 4:51 am Post subject:

i know of vnc, but that is just like working on the network of a remote computer you are correct in this nature.

but what im looking for is that of a emulator that allows me to actually work on my desktop. as i can see X windows etc from a remote computer.

unless vnc has since changed since ive remembered it, i dont think it will do the trick.

thanks for the sugg. though!
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DArtagnan · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 4:52 am Post subject:

vnc supports SSH?

I can connect to my IP only via ssh :-(

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jthj · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 6:26 am Post subject:

kemical · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 6:44 am Post subject:

ok cool thanks

i got tightvnc server running on my gentoo box, and the client running on my winnt box at work..

works excellent

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Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Yeah:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html

ssh is so versatile that I would be surprised if something couldn't be tunnelled through it

tsuru · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 1:50 pm Post subject: XDMCP vs. VNC

I've been thinking of doing a remote desktop setup myself and before vnc was mentioned I thought it had to be done through XDMCP. So my question is what is the difference between XDMCP and VNC?

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

They are quite different. XDMCP is the protocol that defines communication between remote X servers and an xdm session that is hosted somewhere else. You need to have X running on your "client" machine in order to use XDMCP. vnc allows a display to be exported from a Windows box or a Unix X server to a remote client that may be running in X, Windows, or even java. The latter can be used when you cannot or do not want to run an X server on the client machine.

BTW, you don't really need to run XDMCP to get applications running on a remote X server anyway - you can just start the X server, telnet to/login the other box, set the display and launch your application to display on your client.

Some info on XDMCP:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/intro.html

DArtagnan · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:09 pm Post subject:

LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN :-)

The next Kde3.1 has a desktop sharing , it's just great.
I used it and the control is 100%.
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jthj · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:41 pm Post subject: