On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > More like desktop sharing. > > > > > > i only used the phrase "Remote Desktop" since that's how it appears in > > > the GNOME menu. > > > > Bizarre. I'm looking at http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/remote-desktop.html > > > > It's clear it's talking about desktop sharing (or remote assistance), and > > not remote desktop as anyone else uses the term. > > > > > > AFAIK this is the only remote desktop client for Linux: > > http://www.rdesktop.org/ > > That's for the Windows remote desktop protocol and there is no corresponding > server. If you want something with equivalent performance on Linux, look at > freenx with the NX clients from www.nomachine.com. The current freenx server > can't share the active console session though, you have to start new sessions > when you first connect and then you have the choice of suspending or > terminating them when you disconnect. The commercial NX server claims to > allow connections to the console but I haven't tried it. ok, i'm clearly going to have to take a deep breath and collect all this info and collate it. and it seemed like such a simple project in the beginning ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
