How to share a desktop? (for tutoring)

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 17:04:14 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Mikkel L.
Ellertson<mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> I have a need to share a minimal desktop, VNC is out of the question
>> as it's extremely heavy. But I haven't been able to find anything on
>> desktop sharing with FreeNX, and there doesn't seem to be any RDP
>> servers for Linux. Anyone have any suggestions?
>>
> I believe the RDP server is already installed. At least it is on my
> F10 system. To activate it, in Gnome, you go to System -->
> Preferences --> Internet and Network --> Remote Desktop.

Does that use that use the RPD protocol? I thought that Gnome shortcut
was to vino which uses VNC

>> Ideally I would run the session on a Linux box, and connect to it from
>> at least one Windows machine and the other could be either Windows or
>> Linux.
>>
> There are also RDP clients for Linux. I believe there is a Wiki page
> on this - at least I remember reading about it somewhere.
>
> Mikkel

There are clients, but I'm looking for a server right now.

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