Remote desktop to F9 from Vista, how?

[Slash-irl]

Hi Guys,

How would i go about doing remote desktop from my Vista home pc to my new Fedora Core 9 server? I'm a novice and so far I have gotten as far as getting a terminal up through Putty... nothing else

Could anyone give me detailed or semi-detailed instructions on how I would go about getting something that resembles Remote desktop to my server.. baring in mind I am indeed a novice with Linux.

Thanks.

[fnmblot]

You can install Xming on your Vista machine and forward X to your Vista pc while ssh into your server via PuTTY. It is really easy.

[Slash-irl]

I tried using Xming, but i havn't the foggiest how to get the thing to work? could anyone tell me what to do exactly, because whenever I did what I thought was right, the program just closed.

I am actually in serious desperation now because i have been trying programs X, Y and Z for about 9 hours straight now without any luck and I really need to put stuff on this machine.

[fnmblot]

Before you connect to the server with putty, make sure xming is running, choose all the defaults when setting up a session. Then open putty, Go the Connection, SSH, X11. Check the box Enable X11 forwarding. In the X Display location put :0 Be sure you have the colon in there. Then click back to session, type in the ip address and then Open. Once you connect to the server, you should be able to launch the X app as necessary.

[skolnick]

you could also install vnc-server in the fedora and use a vnc client to connect. Google for more info.

Regards.

[savage]

Another option that I use is xrdp, install that on your F9 server, and it allows you to use the Microsoft Terminal Services client to connect, handy since this is on pretty much every Windows PC out there.

It doesn't have RPMs, but it's not too tricky to install, I believe there's a readme in the package.

Don't forget to open port 3389 if you go this route.

[scottro]

As you might have already learned, in Unix there's always more than one way to do things, with the corollary that someone will consider your method to be wrong.

I like FreeNX, finding it much faster than VNC. I have a page on it at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhnx.html

I assume that the nomachines client mentioned in the article works on Vista, but that's untested.

[fnmblot]

Yes, the nomachines client does work. I use that quite a bit.