On 29/06/05, Jorge Tomé Hernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, June 29, 2005 11:34, Arjen Verweij said: > > L.S., > > > > I'm looking for a mechanism to connect to a machine that runs Debian. My > > client (laptop) runs Debian SID. Basically I want some sort of VNC that > > will give me the desktop the user at the workstation is seeing, not a > > fresh one. > > > > I only have experience with VNC/rdesktop to Windows machines, and didn't > > stop to think that it might not work the same way when the VNC server > > was on a Debian box. > > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > VNC works in Linux in the same way that in MS Windows. I think that it is > all you need. >
It doesn't actually On windows it grabs the desktop, on linux it connects to an already running vnc/x session. This means that on windows you will get access to the desktop as it is seen at the local machine, but on linux you get to see a different desktop. e.g. on a linux box you locally connect to desktop :0, but when you start vnc server you will start it on desktop :1, which you connect to remotely, a different desktop. Cheers, Al.
