Hi all
I am having a Fedora core 4 box and a windows xp
Installed xdrp to remote login to the linux box from the XP
When i try doing so from my XP i find the following result .................... see attached pic
a window box where i am not able to type anything
and if the username and password is previously written on windows application . I get a black screen
any idea ?
wouldn't VNC require installing something on the XP side?
yup, you're right. It would require installing the vnc-viewer on the XP machine and vnc-server on the linux machine. I guess if it's possible to accomplish remote connections without the use of additional software, it would probably be a preferred way.
VNC still might be worth considering if for some reason the other software causes too many headaches to set up properly. I guess what I'm saying is....use the one that actually works the way you want
Sorry if this drifts too far off the original topic, but has anyone else tried NX from NoMachine, instead of VNC? The free server version allows 2 concurrent sessions per server, and the clients are available for all major OSs. I like it better than vnc for speed on a slow network, better copy/paste into your remote desktop, and better window sizing and resolution matching.
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Why not putty (ssh)? If you absolutely need to run X programs, you can forward the X session through the putty connection (and run an X server on XP -- Cygwin's works fine for me).
Yeah, I use Cygwin for lots of other stuff already, so when I needed an X server, I just used the one that it has. Looks like xming would work fine for that as well.
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