Easy remote desktop on Windows

From: Steven Stern (subscribed-lists_at_sterndata.com)
Date: 03/03/04

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:40:15 -0600

    I've been struggling to get a remote X desktop to so I can run GUI apps on the
    Fedora box (downstairs) on my Windows box (upstairs). After screwing around
    with various X-servers, I switched over to VNC today. It's incredibly easy!

    Here's a brief how-to for those interested.

    1. Install VNC server. As root, I used

       up2date vnc-server

    2. After it installed

       chkconfig --levels 345 vncserver on
       cd /etc/sysconfig
       vi vncservers

           I added a line

       VNCSERVERS="1:myuserid"

           and to create an XSession on display #1 and saved the file.

       /sbin/service vncserver start

           to start the service
       
    3. Logged out, logged back in with "myuserID".

         vncserver

            It prompts for a password to be used for the VNC connection.

         cd .vnc
         vi xstartup

            I changed this file to start the normal BlueCurve desktop instead
            of a bare twm session by commenting out the line

        twm&

            and adding
       
        exec gnome-session &

    4. On the PC, I installed the VNC viewer from http://www.realvnc.com.
    To connect to the linux box, I connect to
             
         mylinuxhost:1 

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   Steve
   
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