Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
Todd
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
See:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
and
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server
Akemi
On 04/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
Todd
Todd,
I have been using noamchine for a while now and has worked flawlessly. They have free versions of their server as well as clients for linux, macosx, and windows.
http://www.nomachine.com/products.php
Hope this helps.
Monty
Quoting Monty Shinn montys@videopost.com:
On 04/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
It depends on what you do on the server, but for monitoring I use Virtualmin, both GPL and paid versions on different machines and find it very useful.
Dave
Todd
Todd,
I have been using noamchine for a while now and has worked flawlessly. They have free versions of their server as well as clients for linux, macosx, and windows.
http://www.nomachine.com/products.php
Hope this helps.
Monty _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 4/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
If you just want file access (all you'll get with samba), winscp might work. For a full GUI desktop, the nicest way is to install freenx from the Centos extras or EPEL repositories and run the NX client that you can download from www.nomachine.com. Note that freenx generates a unique keypair for each install, so you need to paste the contents of the server /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key file into the client configure/key dialog to allow the connection.
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
On 4/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
If you just want file access (all you'll get with samba), winscp might work.
+1 winscp Samba not required. PuTTY included. SSH secured. All day every day, here.
Insert spiffy .sig here: Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary parts.
//me ******************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. www.Hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated**
On 4/26/2011 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
Todd
Thanks all. I'll give nomachine a try.
Todd
On 04/26/11 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
for connecting to a windows host from a linux host, you want rdesktop. for connecting from a remote windows host (your laptop) through a linux firewall to a protected windows host (your desktop), I would use ssh w/ port forwarding such that you forward localhost:3390 (on the laptop) to windesk:3389 via an SSH connection to the linux host in the middle. For example, using a command line SSH util on your laptop, and assuming your desktop is 192.168.0.10 on the LAN behind the lunix box at 123.123.123.123
ssh -L 3390:192.168.0.10:3389 unixuser@123.123.123.123
you would then use the Windows RDP client, aka mstsc.exe, on the Laptop, and connect to localhost:3390 to manage the remote windows desktop over this ssh tunnel.
you can do much the same with PuTTY or SecureCRT via the GUI connection setup dialogs on the windows laptop.
If you want to view the Linux desktop, thats a different problem, best addressed by FreeNX or similar.
On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:25:38 PM Todd Cary wrote:
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
You've received some good info; let me add to your list the xrdp server app, which allows use of the built-in Windows remote desktop client to log in to the Linux server. A slightly older version is available in RPMforge for C5, and for the upcoming C6 it should be in EPEL or RPMforge (it's in the main Fedora repository).
--- On Tue, 4/26/11, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
From: Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com Subject: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 12:25 PM Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
Todd
-- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952
I would say install Xming. ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) Once this is installed on windows, setup ssh session, with a command to run on server side (i.e. linux box) as either /usr/bin/gnome-session or /usr/bin/startkde (depending on your favorite dwm). Using single screen mode configuration, you get your remote gnome desktop on your windows side. No software to install on linux.
Alternatively, if you want to work on Linux, and have a windows feel, use rdesktop from linux->windows::
"rdesktop -f -a 16 host.domain.com"
To toggle out of full screen mode, use "Ctrl-Alt-Enter"
BEST of ALL, you can forward your local disk to remote (window) machine, such that if you saved files locally, you can access them on windows, without a need to samba (reverse samba, sort of). To forward:
"rdesktop -f -a 16 -r 'disk:linux=/home/Username' host.domain.com" and your local homedir (in this case) will be mounted on windows as a removable storage.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 4/26/2011 3:45 PM, Richard Mollel wrote:
--- On Tue, 4/26/11, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
I would say install Xming. ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) Once this is installed on windows, setup ssh session, with a command to run on server side (i.e. linux box) as either /usr/bin/gnome-session or /usr/bin/startkde (depending on your favorite dwm). Using single screen mode configuration, you get your remote gnome desktop on your windows side. No software to install on linux.
I have used Xming and it works fine on a LAN. It is painful over the Internet. The problem is that it just turns your Windows box into an X server and then streams all of the X traffic across the network.
NX performs MUCH better. On the LAN, you can't tell you are not on the local server, and over the Internet, the lag is barely noticeable most of the time.
Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 4/26/2011 3:45 PM, Richard Mollel wrote:
--- On Tue, 4/26/11, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
I would say install Xming. ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) Once this is installed on windows, setup ssh session, with a command to run on server side (i.e. linux box) as either /usr/bin/gnome-session or /usr/bin/startkde (depending on your favorite dwm). Using single screen mode configuration, you get your remote gnome desktop on your windows side. No software to install on linux.
I have used Xming and it works fine on a LAN. It is painful over the Internet. The problem is that it just turns your Windows box into an X server and then streams all of the X traffic across the network.
NX performs MUCH better. On the LAN, you can't tell you are not on the local server, and over the Internet, the lag is barely noticeable most of the time.
Nomachine is the best solution. You are connected via SSH tunnel so you are protected. Also, you do not have to be logged on to Gnome/KDE to use it. And there is more. There is option to setup Java based NX server so you can access your GUI from web browser.
Ljubomir
On 26/04/11 22:19, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote: Nomachine is the best solution. You are connected via SSH tunnel so you are protected. Also, you do not have to be logged on to Gnome/KDE to use it. And there is more. There is option to setup Java based NX server so you can access your GUI from web browser.
Something to bear in mind if using NoMachine NX is the restrictions on number of users permitted to connect. Last time I played with it, the limit was two users ever rather than two connected users.
It's a load easier to set up than FreeNX though.
On 4/27/11 5:52 AM, Tom Grace wrote:
Nomachine is the best solution. You are connected via SSH tunnel so you are protected. Also, you do not have to be logged on to Gnome/KDE to use it. And there is more. There is option to setup Java based NX server so you can access your GUI from web browser.
Something to bear in mind if using NoMachine NX is the restrictions on number of users permitted to connect. Last time I played with it, the limit was two users ever rather than two connected users.
It's a load easier to set up than FreeNX though.
Errr, 'yum install freenx' is pretty easy (from centos extras or epel). Then if you have the default ssh setup, the only extra work is copying the client key from the server.
On 4/26/2011 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
Todd
WOW! A few choices. in checking the ssh configuration file, I am setup using password authentication - not the best choice. If I change that to NO, is it easy to change my ssh client? One client I use is SSH Tectia. Of course, this will require a change in FreeNX.
FreeNX will be my first install. After that I may try some of the other suggested methods.
Many thanks to all...
Todd
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
WOW! A few choices. in checking the ssh configuration file, I am setup using password authentication - not the best choice. If I change that to NO, is it easy to change my ssh client? One client I use is SSH Tectia. Of course, this will require a change in FreeNX.
FreeNX will be my first install. After that I may try some of the other suggested methods.
Then you may want to read through the CentOS wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
If you decide to leave password authentication enabled, you can skip the entire section "2. Key-based authentication". If you go for the key-based authentication, then follow the instructions to the letter and you should be up and running soon. :)
Akemi
On 4/27/2011 10:51 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Todd Carytodd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
WOW! A few choices. in checking the ssh configuration file, I am setup using password authentication - not the best choice. If I change that to NO, is it easy to change my ssh client? One client I use is SSH Tectia. Of course, this will require a change in FreeNX.
FreeNX will be my first install. After that I may try some of the other suggested methods.
Then you may want to read through the CentOS wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
If you decide to leave password authentication enabled, you can skip the entire section "2. Key-based authentication". If you go for the key-based authentication, then follow the instructions to the letter and you should be up and running soon. :)
Akemi _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
That is the info that prompted the question which is "can I still use putty and SSH Tectia...can those be configured to use Key based authentication?". I'm trying to dig up some docs on those.
Todd
On 4/27/2011 12:43 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
On 4/26/2011 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
Todd
WOW! A few choices. in checking the ssh configuration file, I am setup using password authentication - not the best choice. If I change that to NO, is it easy to change my ssh client? One client I use is SSH Tectia.
Clients normally try key-based authentication first if they have the private side of the identity key.
Of course, this will require a change in FreeNX.
The NX client uses passwordless key authentication to connect as the nx user first, then uses that encrypted channel to do password-based authentication as the actual user. So you at least have to permit passwords over the loopback (127.0.0.x) interface.
--- On Wed, 4/27/11, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
From: Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access To: centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 1:59 PM On 4/27/2011 12:43 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
On 4/26/2011 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop
with Samba
providing access to my Linux server. Since
Linux is more
reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to
access my Linux
(Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully
via VNC or some
similar application and then access the Windows
desktop (if it is
not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install
or use on the
Linux server?
Todd
WOW! A few choices. in checking the ssh
configuration file, I
am setup using password authentication - not the best
choice. If
I change that to NO, is it easy to change my ssh
client? One
client I use is SSH Tectia.
Clients normally try key-based authentication first if they have the private side of the identity key.
Of course, this will require a change in FreeNX.
The NX client uses passwordless key authentication to connect as the nx user first, then uses that encrypted channel to do password-based authentication as the actual user. So you at least have to permit passwords over the loopback (127.0.0.x) interface.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I just tried FreeNX on server (centos), and NX Client from Nomachine. Setup was not bad, though too many sources of info. Settled on centos wiki doc to get me going. However, once I got logged in (using gnome), there are some very normal applications that I am unable to launch, and they work flawlessly with Xming (or the commercial Xwin32). For example, I am unable to launch a gui for our backup program, netvault, gui is "nvgui". It simply flashes, and dies out. That was on day one. I suspended the session, and tried to re-attach this morning. It worked, great. However, it seems to have a big issue with backing store. I have killed all sessions, reconnected, same issue. If I "shake" a window, it leaves its traces all over, and there is nothing I can do about it but kill the session again and retry. Any ideas?
On 4/29/2011 7:10 AM, Richard Mollel wrote:
--- On Wed, 4/27/11, Les Mikeselllesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
From: Les Mikeselllesmikesell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access To: centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 1:59 PM On 4/27/2011 12:43 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
On 4/26/2011 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop
with Samba
providing access to my Linux server. Since
Linux is more
reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to
access my Linux
(Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully
via VNC or some
similar application and then access the Windows
desktop (if it is
not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install
or use on the
Linux server?
Todd
WOW! A few choices. in checking the ssh
configuration file, I
am setup using password authentication - not the best
choice. If
I change that to NO, is it easy to change my ssh
client? One
client I use is SSH Tectia.
Clients normally try key-based authentication first if they have the private side of the identity key.
Of course, this will require a change in FreeNX.
The NX client uses passwordless key authentication to connect as the nx user first, then uses that encrypted channel to do password-based authentication as the actual user. So you at least have to permit passwords over the loopback (127.0.0.x) interface.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I just tried FreeNX on server (centos), and NX Client from Nomachine. Setup was not bad, though too many sources of info. Settled on centos wiki doc to get me going. However, once I got logged in (using gnome), there are some very normal applications that I am unable to launch, and they work flawlessly with Xming (or the commercial Xwin32). For example, I am unable to launch a gui for our backup program, netvault, gui is "nvgui". It simply flashes, and dies out. That was on day one. I suspended the session, and tried to re-attach this morning. It worked, great. However, it seems to have a big issue with backing store. I have killed all sessions, reconnected, same issue. If I "shake" a window, it leaves its traces all over, and there is nothing I can do about it but kill the session again and retry. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I have FreeNX on my server now and NX Client from Nomachine on my XP desktop. However my ssh is configured for PW access; not Key access. My ssh clients work - that is I have access to the server. However I cannot gain access via the Nomachine client.
My plan was to get FreeNX working with the password security first, and after that change the Nomachine client and the other ssh clients to Key access. But I am stuck at the moment - not sure how to trouble shoot my inability to get access.
Todd
On 4/29/2011 9:41 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
I have FreeNX on my server now and NX Client from Nomachine on my XP desktop. However my ssh is configured for PW access; not Key access. My ssh clients work - that is I have access to the server. However I cannot gain access via the Nomachine client.
First, why would you disable key authentication? Or is it just failing because you don't have the right key? Unlike the commercial NoMachine server, freenx generates a unique keypair so after the server install you have to get the contents of /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key into the NX client key config. You can either transfer the file and use the import button or get the text on the screen so you can paste it into the window and save it.
My plan was to get FreeNX working with the password security first, and after that change the Nomachine client and the other ssh clients to Key access. But I am stuck at the moment - not sure how to trouble shoot my inability to get access.
NX is designed to connect as the restricted nx user with passwordless key authentication, then use that encrypted channel to pass the real user credentials. It might be possible to change that but it won't be easy. If you have a real reason for disabling key authentication on the server in question, perhaps you could use some other computer on the LAN to host your desktop session, then use ssh x-forwarding to run what you need on the more restricted servers in windows on that desktop.
On 4/29/2011 8:21 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
First, why would you disable key authentication? Or is it just failing because you don't have the right key?
When I read the wiki (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX), it states
Note: If you have disallowed ssh password authentication (which is advised but not mandatory), you need to follow the instructions here. Otherwise you can skip this section.
I checked the ssh configuration file and ssh password authentication is enabled. My Centos 5.5 is an Out of the Box installation, so this setting was not done by me - at least not directly. So my thinking was/is that I could just skip the rest of that part of the setup.
Confused....
Todd
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
On 4/29/2011 8:21 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
First, why would you disable key authentication? Or is it just failing because you don't have the right key?
When I read the wiki (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX), it states
Note: If you have disallowed ssh password authentication (which is advised but not mandatory), you need to follow the instructions here. Otherwise you can skip this section.
I checked the ssh configuration file and ssh password authentication is enabled. My Centos 5.5 is an Out of the Box installation, so this setting was not done by me - at least not directly. So my thinking was/is that I could just skip the rest of that part of the setup.
Yes, password authentication is enabled by default. So, you can skip Section 2 to do the setup. That would eliminate 'potential misconfiguration' related to the steps in that Section.
Once you confirm your NX setup is working, you can then disable password authentication if you wish (recommended) and go through the required steps.
Akemi
On 4/29/2011 10:57 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
First, why would you disable key authentication? Or is it just failing because you don't have the right key?
When I read the wiki (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX), it states
Note: If you have disallowed ssh password authentication (which is advised but not mandatory), you need to follow the instructions here. Otherwise you can skip this section.
I checked the ssh configuration file and ssh password authentication is enabled. My Centos 5.5 is an Out of the Box installation, so this setting was not done by me - at least not directly. So my thinking was/is that I could just skip the rest of that part of the setup.
Confused....
Enabling password authentication (the default) does not disable key authentication (also enabled by default). The client offers the key if it has one. If it doesn't, or if the the key fails, a later step prompts for a password.
A quick check for basic key authentication would be to cd to /etc/nxserver and: ssh -i client.id_dsa.key nx@localhost You'll get the usual host key warning the first time but after responding 'yes' you should get a 'HELLO NXSERVER' prompt. Type 'exit' to disconnect. If that works, the NX client should too once the key is installed correctly.
Greetings,
Just followw Akemi. :)
Regarw,
Rajagopal
On 4/30/11, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/29/2011 10:57 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
First, why would you disable key authentication? Or is it just failing because you don't have the right key?
When I read the wiki (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX), it states
Note: If you have disallowed ssh password authentication (which is advised but not mandatory), you need to follow the instructions here. Otherwise you can skip this section.
I checked the ssh configuration file and ssh password authentication is enabled. My Centos 5.5 is an Out of the Box installation, so this setting was not done by me - at least not directly. So my thinking was/is that I could just skip the rest of that part of the setup.
Confused....
Enabling password authentication (the default) does not disable key authentication (also enabled by default). The client offers the key if it has one. If it doesn't, or if the the key fails, a later step prompts for a password.
A quick check for basic key authentication would be to cd to /etc/nxserver and: ssh -i client.id_dsa.key nx@localhost You'll get the usual host key warning the first time but after responding 'yes' you should get a 'HELLO NXSERVER' prompt. Type 'exit' to disconnect. If that works, the NX client should too once the key is installed correctly.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 4/29/2011 9:10 AM, Richard Mollel wrote:
I just tried FreeNX on server (centos), and NX Client from Nomachine. Setup was not bad, though too many sources of info. Settled on centos wiki doc to get me going.
You shouldn't have to do anything but: yum install freenx and then get the contents of /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key into the client config. (You can xfer the file and import it, but I usually just ssh in, cat the file to the screen and copy/paste the text between windows).
However, once I got logged in (using gnome), there are some very normal applications that I am unable to launch, and they work flawlessly with Xming (or the commercial Xwin32). For example, I am unable to launch a gui for our backup program, netvault, gui is "nvgui". It simply flashes, and dies out. That was on day one.
That has to do with font handling, but I've forgotten the details. There are old/new ways of doing X fonts and NX only does it the new way by default. You can fix it by using a font server or installing all the old style fonts, or something like that. I didn't need to run any old programs badly enough to deal with it.
I suspended the session, and tried to re-attach this morning. It worked, great. However, it seems to have a big issue with backing store. I have killed all sessions, reconnected, same issue. If I "shake" a window, it leaves its traces all over, and there is nothing I can do about it but kill the session again and retry. Any ideas?
That must have something to do with your client platform video drivers. I think it is mostly cygwin X code or equivalent under the covers handling the display. I see it sometimes on a dual-headed windows client but only if I open the window on one monitor, then drag it to the other. Other than that, the LAN performance I see is pretty much a match for the local console for everything short of live video and still pretty good after the initial redraw when I pick up the session remotely. Can you try it from some other computer? You might also play with the client config option related to caching (that slider from Modem to LAN speed and the cache sizes in the advanced tab). If you client doesn't have much ram or has a slow disk it might help to tune those down.
By the way, if you run the client from a Mac or Linux, you get the option to resize the window after it opens. The windows client will snap to the available size (or what you specify in the client) as it opens, which doesn't have to match the previous session size, but won't change on the fly.
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:25:38 -0700 Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some similar application and then access the Windows desktop (if it is not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server?
The big win for me with NX is that copy and paste between local and remote server works like a charm. I was never able to get *VNC* copy and paste to work at all (or maybe I did once - mists of time, it doesn't work now). That trumps it for me. Mind you - I never tried freenx.
g'luck
Bob
-
Akemi Yagi -
Bob Hepple -
Bowie Bailey -
Brunner, Brian T. -
Dave Stevens -
John R Pierce -
Lamar Owen -
Les Mikesell -
Ljubomir Ljubojevic -
Monty Shinn -
Rajagopal Swaminathan -
Richard Mollel -
Todd Cary -
Tom Grace