Making VNC behave like Windoze RDP

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> On 9 Feb 2005, at 05:21, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>
>> Personally I use X11 over ssh.  I have my laptop setup with custom
>> launchers for the applications I want to run on remote systems.  By
>> using ssh you get a couple of benefits, the login and connection are
>> encrypted and you can tunnel pretty much anything over ssh.  And
>> depending on the speed of your computer you can enable compression which
>> can help the through put in some cases.
>
>
> But you can't keep programs running on the remote machine if you close 
> your SSH session or shutdown your client computer, can you?
>
Use dtach or screen at the start of your SSH session and you will be 
able to reconnect to what you were running with a later SSH session.  
Each of these is provided by an rpm package of the same name in the base 
Fedora Core distro.

Chris

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