David, You didn’t indicate whether you are trying to do this on a LAN or across the public Internet? Classic VNC is not a secure protocol, but there are variations of it that are secure. If you just want to run GUI programs rather than fully “screen share,” then you can use an X Windows client or xpra. I have done all this using OS X so honestly I am not familiar with the Windows clients to recommend. I have used Cygwin, but only to run command line programs such as ssh, rsync, etc. Others will have to make suggestions based on actual experience. Mark MARK H RICHER, MS CS NPS-NCR Digital Forensics Lab IT Manager Computer Science Department Naval Postgraduate School - National Capital Region (NCR) 900 N Glebe Rd, Rm 5-182, Arlington, VA 22203 571.858.3254 (o) 571.303.9498 (m) mhricher at nps.edu<mailto:mhricher at nps.edu> On Nov 16, 2014, at 9:25 PM, david <david at daku.org<mailto:david at daku.org>> wrote: 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. Are there any known working solutions? Thanks... Mystified but not urgent in San Francisco David _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org<mailto:CentOS at centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos