[CentOS] Remote Desktop Recommendations

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

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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


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