Sharing Desktop in F11 ?

[Richard England]

Andrew Smith wrote:
> On 19/04/09 08:13, cornel panceac wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2009/4/18 Richard England <rlengland at verizon.net 
>> <mailto:rlengland at verizon.net>>
>>
>>     In Fedora 10, to connect to your desktop via VNC, it was
>>     necessary to use
>>      System>Internet and Network>Remote Desktop  ("General" tab)
>>     to set the "Sharing" and "Security" settings before you could
>>     "see" the desktop.
>>     Is this available for Fedora 11?  I'm not seeing it.  If it has
>>     moved, I'm not finding it.  If it is not longer necessary then
>>     I'm net getting VNC to work from F11 (connection is refused).
>>      All my F10 systems let me view desktops on other F10 systems and
>>     my F11 system can view desktops on the F10 systems.
>>
>>     Any one successfully used F11 VNC to get into another machine on
>>     their local network?  I believe I have the firewall configured on
>>     F11 and F10 the same.  I also believe I have all the tigervnc
>>     modules installed (finally) but can anyone tell me what is required?
>>
>>     Thanks,
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>> check the ports on the machine wich refuse connection, like:
>> nmap <machine's ip>
>>  
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I installed Fedora 11 from a live CD and wondered where "Remote 
> Desktop" had gone (it's usually there by default).
> After reading about the new tigervnc I thought the server was being 
> replaced.
>
> If you want to enable "Remote Desktop" on Fedora 11 (as it was in F10) 
> then you need to make sure vino is installed.
>
> sudo yum install vino
>
> Then to setup your preferences run:
>
> vino-preferences
>
> You can also now access this from System > Preferences > Remote Desktop.
>
> The tigervnc package is a replacement for vncviewer, which will allow 
> to vnc onto other machines from your Fedora 11 box.
> I had a look at tigervnc-server, but I can't see an easy way to enable 
> it to attach to the console, like vino does.
> Not sure whether tigervnc-server will replace vino in the future but I 
> assume it will (tigervnc has a lot of performance increases and virtualgl)
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
Thank you, Andrew.  That was what I needed.  I've put that one in my log 
for reference.

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