On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:59:28 -0800 david wrote:

I'm looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a Centos 7 server from a Windows client.

I'm looking for a solution that works over the internet from afar. Are there any known working solutions?

I tunnel vnc over ssh when using it at a distance. There are numerous tutorials online that will tell you how to do this. The one and only time I set this up to run on a Windows machine, I used a program named putty to create a ssh connection to Centos server machine, and then ran the tightvnc client program on the Windows machine.

"yum install tigervnc-server" gets you what you need on the server side. Putty and tightvnc for Windows are available for download from their respective websites.

Do you need a full blown desktop? Otherwise you could just tunnel some X11 app via SSH (eg firefox, virt-manager).

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From: "david" david@daku.org To: centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, 17 November, 2014 03:59:28 Subject: [CentOS] Remote Desktop Recommendations (2)

Folks

I'm looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a Centos 7 server from a Windows client. I have tried:

• X2go from EPEL (fails immediately, apparently they are working on a

solution, but...)

• Freenx (doesn't exist for EL7)

Both the above work fine with Centos 6.

I'm looking for a solution that works over the internet from afar. My earlier posting failed to mention this.

Are there any known working solutions?

Thanks...

Mystified but not urgent in San Francisco David

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