[PLUG] Remote Desktop under Ubuntu

[John Medway]

Another option which gives you VNC-ish sessions which stay alive, and can 
be re-joined if you disconnect is NX/freenx. I've only used it under Fedora 
and CentOS, and kind of a pain to set up, last I tried. But it's MUCH 
faster than VNC, and worth looking into.


At 12:21 PM 4/27/2009, MJang wrote:
>On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 11:39 -0700, Tim Wescott wrote:
> > >
> > That's what Ubuntu has me set up with.  I've further found out that
> > everything is fine when I connect to just _look_ at the desktop, but I
> > want to sit in my living room with my laptop and do work on this machine
> > (my office is in a detached building).
>
>First, I haven't worked Intrepid, I'm using Hardy.
>
>I do something similar to what you do. For that purpose, I prefer SSH
>instead of VNC; I log into the remote system with:
>
>ssh -X username at remotesystem
>
>which allows me to tunnel individual GUI apps if/when needed. I find it
>faster - and easier to set up - than VNC.
>
>And there's a third option - XDMCP logins - I have a local VMware Server
>system with a GDM login screen. The remote (office) system also has a
>GDM login screen, with XDMCP enabled.
>
>But that assumes you can access remote logins from the Intrepid login
>screen. (Put the cursor in the username text box, and press F10. I hope
>you see a Remote Login via XDMCP option.)
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
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