Making VNC behave like Windoze RDP

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 9 Feb 2005, at 15:56, Scot L. Harris wrote:

>> But you can't keep programs running on the remote machine if you close
>> your SSH session or shutdown your client computer, can you?
>
> Using X11 over ssh directly no.  But you can use a command called 
> screen
> to create virtual terminals that you can can be detached and then you
> can reattach to them.
>
> VNC may be a better option for what you want to do.  I used VNC a lot
> way back but have changed my mode of operation over the last few years
> to use ssh and X11 for most stuff.
>
> How ever you do this just make sure your connections are encrypted and
> that you don't have clear text passwords going over the Internet.
>
> Other than that there are several ways to do what you want.  It comes
> down to trying each and figuring out what method you prefer.

When doing administrative tasks, I usually resort to ssh too, but I 
prefer using FreeNX when using remote graphical applications, as it 
supports SSL-encrypted sessions, uses SSH authentication and is pretty 
fast (much more than VNC).