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laborde
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 Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:03 am Post subject: Remote access to my Lunix box from XP (yea yea, i know!) |
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Yes I know... but I host my web on a linux box and do not have a monitor plugged in. My daily home PC is XP  .
How do you install a VNC like program on that box? I have read it does not work.
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iswm
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Joined: 10 Jan 2004
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Location: Tucson, AZ
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Run SSH on the Linux box, and use PuTTY on the Windows box to access it. |
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Nossie
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If you just want to be able to log into a shell on the linux box, use ssh.
If you want to export a X display... well I don't have any experience with that, but it should be possible...
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dvc5
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:31 am Post subject: |
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VNC should work quite nicely on a linux box. If not, you can always enable X forwarding in ssh (check /etc/ssh/sshd_config) and use a program like cygwin on your windows machine. Once you have cygwin installed (assuming you chose all packages during the install), you can just type "startx" in the cygwin shell and login to your linux box from one of the terminals that appears. 
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skyfw
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emerge -s vnc
emerge -pv <whatever the search gave you>
emerge -v <same as above>
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I'm not in Linux right now, but I think it's the TightVNC package. Then just add vncserver to rc-update and your VNC server will start up on boot.
Just grab either RealVNC or TightVNC ( or pretty much any other VNC client ) for your XP box.
Also if you want to do the X over SSH method, there is a X-win32 client that can connect to X servers in windows, but I think it requires a license. |
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Twink
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| installing cygwin on your windows box gives you alot of linux utils (ls, ssh, grep) and it even comes with xfree, which you can run, then ssh into your linux box and forward all applications to run on your display instead. |
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