[ale] VNC and remonte control Linux

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Mar 12 08:47:58 EST 2003


There is a good article on this in the latest issue of Linux Journal.  I
believe that is where I saw VNC and RDP stuff

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 08:15, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> There was a discussion about vnc here a long time back along those
> lines. Essential, vnc displays the only screen in a M$ environment, but
> *nix gets a new screen unless special steps are taken. I don't remember
> the details of hand, but it involved possibly the use of the screen
> command coupled with xdm/kdm/gdm. It was good for remote access, but the
> console user had to jump through hoops to make it work.
> 
> Try a google search on the ALE archives. 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 08:07, David Hamm wrote:
> > Has anyone used VNC to take control of a remote X desktop session on a Linux
> > box?  I'd like to show a remote user how to do something and VNC only seems
> > to give me a new desktop I can't take control of the user's desktop. 
> > 
> > David Hamm
> > Imaging Technologies Services, Inc.
> > 655 Lambert Drive
> > Atlanta, GA 30324
> > dhamm at itserve.com
> > 404-888-6337
> > 
> > 
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