how to set up remote desktop server?


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So I have linux mandrake running at home and at school I have my windows xp machine. I think I remember installing somthing like a remote desktop server on linux when I first installed it but no idea. I have telnet up and working and ftp/www on the linux machine but I have no idea where to start to do a remote desktop type session from my xp machine (client) to linux machine(server) can anyone point me to a good site or tell me how to set this all up using a telnet session?

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So I have linux mandrake running at home and at school I have my windows xp machine. I think I remember installing somthing like a remote desktop server on linux when I first installed it but no idea. I have telnet up and working and ftp/www on the linux machine but I have no idea where to start to do a remote desktop type session from my xp machine (client) to linux machine(server) can anyone point me to a good site or tell me how to set this all up using a telnet session?

The latest versions of Mandrake come with several VNC options under networking in the KDE-Menu

You can also get some more info at http://www.realvnc.com/

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Hrm ok, well I think I've got that working but I was hoping for maybe my kde desktop or gnome. This desktop seems limited. Any way to access that?

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Huh? :rofl:

VNC will display your desktop to a remote PC. That is, if you run KDE on your Linux PC at home, and use VNC on an XP machine at school, you will actually SEE your Linux desktop, just as if you were right there!

ssh is not the same thing. It allows you to log in, but just the same as if you were at your keyboard, and were able to use CTRL+ALT+F2 to log in on another tty terminal. You can execute things, but cannot use a GUI desktop.

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Hrm well the problem I'm having right now is that while I normaly use kde or gnome the vnc connection uses none. I had my father start up the server on the machine at home from my normal desktop and it did work like it should have. However what I really want to do is be able to log in without having the server at home logged in to any user and also have the option of logging in as different users and not just the one who ran servervnc. So if this can be done can someone tell me how to do it? Thanks

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Your going to want to use

-inetd

This significantly changes Xvnc's behaviour so that it can be launched from inetd. Instead of listening for TCP connections it uses its standard input and standard output as a connection to the VNC viewer. See the information on the extras page on the web site for details.

This was added into the core vnc stuff quite some time ago - but I will admit their documentation is a bit lacking :)

edit: Here you go - this guy has the info you need to set this up http://trilug.org/~chrish/blog.php?wl_mode=more&wl_eid=130

Took about 5 minutes to get this up and running

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