[GTALUG] Remote GUI access to a Linux box from Windows

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri May 29 14:26:22 UTC 2015


On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:45:36PM -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I need to organize a remote gui access from several windows machine to a
> linux box, running Fedora 22 with GNOME.
> 
> The major requirements are -- it's gonna work on a LAN, needs to be
> responsive, and the should exist a decent windows client.
> 
> I think VNC is a bit too cumbersome, although there might be a better
> client out there.

How about rdp which seems to be what windows likes to use.

> Has anyone used anything more recent? So far I'm most inclined on using
> X2Go -- http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php, has anyone had any experience with
> it?

Package: xrdp
Version: 0.6.1-2
Installed-Size: 1593
Maintainer: Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libx11-6, libxfixes3, adduser
Recommends: vnc4server | tightvncserver | vnc-server
Description-en: Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server
 Based on research work by the rdesktop project, xrdp uses the Remote
 Desktop Protocol to present a graphical login to a remote client.
 xrdp can connect to a VNC server or another RDP server.
 .
 Microsoft Windows users can connect to a system running xrdp without
 installing additional software.
Description-md5: b98c1889e17be6136503794b3491891b
Homepage: http://xrdp.sourceforge.net
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, network::server, role::program,
 use::login, use::viewing, x11::application
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xrdp/xrdp_0.6.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 217932
MD5sum: 96ce09e7c1ae53a6a6a588cc7cf9f52b
SHA1: 509cdc203e606921a4f092d9a5788e2d90440403
SHA256: ad7aa1c3844c0b77c0931907f7939e7d5d72b552e6cfe28330d4ff56f21e1895



The 'does not need additional software installed on windows' seems like
a nice feature.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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