Art Huston wrote at 2013-07-01 14:18 -0500: > I'm looking for the simplest, quickest way to setup VNC Server so I can > access my Debian machine from Windows. There are a number of ways found on > the web -- is there a best practice?
I do not know about a "best practice", but if I decide that I need to see a remote display, I run `x11vnc -passwd mysecret -display :0` on the remote system (VNC server) and `vncviewer host` on the local system to view it. For your case, install the x11vnc package on your Debian system and find a VNC viewer for Windows. I have noted that it may be necessary to add `-auth guess` to the x11vnc command, and also that I can use 'host:0', 'host:1', etc. in the local command to refer to different X displays on the remote system. Security may be an issue here; comments welcome. I have not bothered to consider it because all my connections are either local or over a VPN.
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