remote desktop access

Tim Wunder tim
Fri Sep 23 12:14:27 PDT 2005


On Friday 23 September 2005 12:25 pm, someone claiming to be Dr. Scott S. 
Jones wrote:
> Tim:
> >I use FreeNX to access my linux machine from my Windows laptop at work
> > daily. When F'ing comcast's connection if working, it works great.
> >All you really need is an ssh connection.
> >
> >The response time of my KDE desktop is surprisingly quick.  I highly
> > recommend it.
>
> I run debian 3.1 at work, and at home too, and wife has laptop running
> winxphome.
>
> I need a solution for both linux to linux gui remote admin as well winxp
> to linux remote.....
>
> Do I install freeNX with 'apt-get install freenx'? Should that get me
> going in right direction?
>

Assuming debian has freenx & nx in the repositories you have configured for 
apt, that should be a good starting pont.

freenx works for win->linux, linux->linux, linux->win (RDP) and even win->win 
(I think). Google knows alot about it ;)

Good luck. If you have specific issues getting this set up, post your 
questions here. 

Regards, 
Tim

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