Making VNC behave like Windoze RDP

[H. Streit]

That reminds me, does anyone know if there's a way to get VNC to 
support encryption between windows clients?  I'm trying to push VNC 
over RDP here at work (VNC rocks for HelpDesk/User Profile issues).


Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> 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).
>