Hello everyone, I need to organize a remote gui access from several windows machine to a linux box, running Fedora 22 with GNOME. The major requirements are -- it's gonna work on a LAN, needs to be responsive, and the should exist a decent windows client. I think VNC is a bit too cumbersome, although there might be a better client out there. Has anyone used anything more recent? So far I'm most inclined on using X2Go -- http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php, has anyone had any experience with it? Thanks, Alex.
Alex Volkov wrote:
Hello everyone,
I need to organize a remote gui access from several windows machine to a linux box, running Fedora 22 with GNOME.
The major requirements are -- it's gonna work on a LAN, needs to be responsive, and the should exist a decent windows client.
I think VNC is a bit too cumbersome, although there might be a better client out there.
Has anyone used anything more recent? So far I'm most inclined on using X2Go -- http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php, has anyone had any experience with it?
I am using xrdp[1] right now for this and it's great because it just works. It's works while for most basic office-like tasks (i.e. running LibreOffice, Wireshark, and Thunderbird). I wouldn't suggest it for running video though. You can use the Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connect as the client. [1]: <http://www.xrdp.org/>
On Thu 28 May 2015 15:45 -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
The major requirements are -- it's gonna work on a LAN, needs to be responsive, and the should exist a decent windows client.
I think VNC is a bit too cumbersome, although there might be a better client out there.
What is cumbersome? I've found VNC to be pretty trivial to walk non technical users through, even children. If you control the network around the Linux machine you can open a path to it and even point a domain to it. So no messing around with IP addresses or firewalls on their side.
On 28 May 2015 at 16:00, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu 28 May 2015 15:45 -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
The major requirements are -- it's gonna work on a LAN, needs to be responsive, and the should exist a decent windows client.
I think VNC is a bit too cumbersome, although there might be a better client out there.
What is cumbersome?
I've found VNC to be pretty trivial to walk non technical users through, even children. If you control the network around the Linux machine you can open a path to it and even point a domain to it. So no messing around with IP addresses or firewalls on their side.
He says "even children," as if they're tough to teach. Now if you'd said "even grandparents," that would be a selling point. I've always used VNC, and have no big issues with it ... but I'm willing to admit that "cumbersome" is a reasonably accurate description. The next time I need such a thing, I'll take Myles' suggestion and look at xrdp. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com
On Fri 29 May 2015 10:28 -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
I've always used VNC, and have no big issues with it ... but I'm willing to admit that "cumbersome" is a reasonably accurate description. The next time I need such a thing, I'll take Myles' suggestion and look at xrdp.
True. Not sure I would consider it cumbersome, but seems these days the download/install of a desktop program falls into that category. Better be installed already or make it a mobile/web app.
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:45:36PM -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
Hello everyone,
I need to organize a remote gui access from several windows machine to a linux box, running Fedora 22 with GNOME.
The major requirements are -- it's gonna work on a LAN, needs to be responsive, and the should exist a decent windows client.
I think VNC is a bit too cumbersome, although there might be a better client out there.
How about rdp which seems to be what windows likes to use.
Has anyone used anything more recent? So far I'm most inclined on using X2Go -- http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php, has anyone had any experience with it?
Package: xrdp Version: 0.6.1-2 Installed-Size: 1593 Maintainer: Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libx11-6, libxfixes3, adduser Recommends: vnc4server | tightvncserver | vnc-server Description-en: Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server Based on research work by the rdesktop project, xrdp uses the Remote Desktop Protocol to present a graphical login to a remote client. xrdp can connect to a VNC server or another RDP server. . Microsoft Windows users can connect to a system running xrdp without installing additional software. Description-md5: b98c1889e17be6136503794b3491891b Homepage: http://xrdp.sourceforge.net Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, network::server, role::program, use::login, use::viewing, x11::application Section: net Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/x/xrdp/xrdp_0.6.1-2_amd64.deb Size: 217932 MD5sum: 96ce09e7c1ae53a6a6a588cc7cf9f52b SHA1: 509cdc203e606921a4f092d9a5788e2d90440403 SHA256: ad7aa1c3844c0b77c0931907f7939e7d5d72b552e6cfe28330d4ff56f21e1895 The 'does not need additional software installed on windows' seems like a nice feature. -- Len Sorensen
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