VNC or XMX for helping others with linux.

Mike Rushford (rushford@wenet.net)
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 19:14:37 +0000


Mark Conway Wirt wrote:

> http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/

> Another nifty thing about VNC is that it works moth ways: You can run a
> UNIX desktop on your windows computer, but you can also control an NT
> machine from a Linux box, similarly to PC-Anywhere.

For both a NT to NT or Linux to NT connection you are allowed to interact with
the vnc consoles on both machine and whatever happens on one happens on either
systems screen. However when a VNC connection occurs from NT to Linux or Linux
to Linux then its only observable and controllable from the originator or client
side of a Linux or NT connection, no screen appears on the server Linux box.

I would like to get the Linux x session screen :0.0 to appear on the NT box
rather than a new x server and screen session. I would like to use this when I
want to help a friend at some problem he is having on their linux box. In this
way he can see what I am doing on his Linux box. I would like this weather I use
a NT or Linux box to vnc connect to this Linux box. Is there a way to do this?

I have been working with xmx
http://www.cs.brown.edu/software/xmx/
so that I could get this shared X server screen ability under Linux, does vnc
provide the same functionality?

Thanks

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