screen sharing on Ubuntu?

[Matthias Müller]

Hi Karl,

I use SSH tunneling and VNC. Works well on my side. Google for "vnc putty
ssh tunnel".

Dunno why your VNC is not performing well. This is another issue.

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2016-08-03 10:07 GMT+02:00 Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>:

> I have a need to allow a Windows user to share my Ubuntu desktop
> screen.
>
> vinagre (VNC access) does not support encryption, or at least no method
> that RealVNC on Windows understands. I'm not prepared to have the
> session unencrypted. Also, when I experimentally, and on my own local
> network, allowed an unencrypted session, the result was unusably slow.
>
> xrdp is not quite what I'm after. xrdp allows people to log in, using
> RDP, to a server running X and get their own X session. Their session
> will run on the server, but be displayed locally, so they don't need a
> local X server. Cool, but I want to display an existing session to
> someone else.
>
> There's an open source thing called Synergy that looks very nice, but
> it needs to be installed on both ends.
>
> Are there any workable solutions for sharing a Linux screen with a
> Windows user?
>
> Note: I have successfully used GotoMeeting, but a Windows or Mac user
> has to initiate the session. Have also used Google Hangouts, that
> worked well. Skype worked, sorta (not well). TeamViewer works very
> well, but it is commercial and the other person has to install
> TeamViewer, so the same problem as Synergy. There are a dozen other
> webby things, and several that require me to download and run some
> Windows software :-)
>
> Anyone found anything good for this purpose?
>
> Regards, K.
>
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