Remote desktop in Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 10/23/2008 06:39 AM, Christian wrote:
>> Hi all, Is it possible for a Windows user to connect to my Ubuntus
>> desktop through some client for Windows and we can work with the
>> system at the same time? If so, what client? Many thanks, Christian
>> 
>> 
> 
> Others have mentioned VNC & that will work - however VNC will want to
> control the desktop so both users will be fighting for the desktop/mouse
> etc., at the same time. If you understand that it will work just fine.

Not necessarily.  If you enable XDMCP, VNC gives you a completely separate
login on the Ubuntu system (when it connects, you start at the xdm/kdm/gdm
login screen).  However...  XDMCP is poorly documented and while I had it
working for a while, it broke and I found it easier to install NX than fix
it.

> Note: You'll still want to install UltraVNC (or other) on the Windows
> machine so that you can go from the Ubuntu machine back to the Win
> machine (just use the already installed terminal server client).

For that, there's krdc if you can bring yourself to using KDE...
-- 
derek