[Leaplist] Remote Desktop Software advice?

[Jason Boxman]

Chris:

On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:40, Chris wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've got a customer interested in trying Linux. Up until now,
> they've been a Windows shop. I've set up VNC on all their
> desktops, and if they get in a bind, it's easy for me to attach
> to their Windows desktop session and interact with them.
>
> But it seems that VNC under Linux wants to create its own
> session, which is not the same desktop that they will be seeing.
> The goal is to be able to attach to their current desktop session -
> not start a new one that they can't see.

Good luck with that. ;)

I've been wanting to do that -- forever.  The only 'solution' I've found is to 
run `x11vnc`, which will attach itself to a running session and let you VNC 
into it.  Because it is run after the fact, it seems to be one of the slower 
VNC options and cannot avail itself of all the tricks to speed up a VNC 
session.

Although I haven't tried it, you can use NX to tunnel VNC sessions -- see my 
earlier post on NX -- and that can speed up the responsiveness somewhat.  
You'll need a dedicated NX bounce box (Linux box) to accomplish this.

If anyone has found a better way to access the active X11 session, I'd love to 
hear about it.

Hrm, there's a guide for installing FreeNX for Ubuntu 7.10; He suggests 
`x11vnc` for accessing the active X session, too.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=620057&highlight=freenx