Remote Desktop on FC8

[Jim]

Mike wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I thought they are essentially the same in terms of funcionality. The NX
>> work came after VNC (don't know if technically you could call it a fork,
>> but no matter) and mainly improves the protocol for sending window
>> events and deltas back and forth, hence is a lot faster in many cases.
>>
>> There may indeed be a difference in the case of the 'vnc' X module, but
>> I suspect an equivalent module could be developed for NX.
>>     
>
> The one situation I have never seen explained - is whether given the following
> scenario this can be done with freenx/nx
> 1) User Alice on machine A boots up and logs in to KDE.
> 2) This user has a problem setting up his email client and wants help
> 3) User Bob on some remote machine B offers to give help.
> 4) User Bob now makes an ssh connection to machine A since he is the
> administrator but is away from A.
> 5) Bob now shows Alice what to do by observing Alice's screen on his
> own monitor on machine B, and moves the mouse cursor which is then
> visible both on his own machine B as well as Alice following his actions
> on her machine A.
>
> Secondly Alice wants to see Bob perform her own login on her machine A
> after Bob has done some updates and wants to boot A to a new kernel.
> So Bob does a "shutdown -r now" and asks Alice to tell him when there
> is a login prompt on her screen on A.
>
> At that point Bob connects back via ssh to A, and watches Alice's screen
> on his own monitor on B, whilst Alice sits back and watches Bob do her
> login on A, executed from his machine B via the ssh tunnel.
>
> Is this possible with freenx/nx
>
>
>
>   
The NX from http://nomachine.com/download.php is the way to go, Freenx 
which is supposed to be the same program as NX, I have tryed freenx ,but 
I can never get it to work.
NX from nomachine works right out of the box and I use it to work on 
friends computer across the internet.
The NX is FREE and you download the three rpm's :

nxclient-3.2.0-9.i386.rpm
nxnode-3.2.0-5.i386.rpm
nxserver-3.2.0-7.i386.rpm

And,   rpm -ivh nxclient-3.2.0-9.i386.rpm  nxnode-3.2.0-5.i386.rpm  
nxserver-3.2.0-7.i386.rpm
And wa'la their installed.

These rpms are for 32 bit machine, they do have rpms for 64 bit machines.

I always install all three files on my clients and servers.
If the remote box you are working on is a "dynamic IP" I would think 
about using the app. "ddclient",  ddclient is on the Fedora repos, 
ddclient works with http://dydns.org to save the IP address for the 
remote machine.
and you won't have to  be asking the person's computer your are working 
to get their IP address every time you go to connect.