Comments on: Remote Desktop Sharing in Ubuntu

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:32:49 +0000

I just put together a cheap computer kit. Bought an Hitachi 1TB drive for 89 bucks. Got a total of 260 bucks in the machine. Running ubuntu 8.1,no monitor. I ripped my entire cd collection into the Linux box from my wireless laptop and plugged the audio out into a stereo system that feeds my screened in porch out back. I use VNC Viewer on my wireless laptop pc and control the desktop on the Linux box remotely to shuffle or pick any of the music I ripped into it. You can even control volume! It is very cool! I can even swith applications on the Linux box and stream Pandora radio from ubuntu if I get tired of my cd collection.

By: MishMich

MishMich — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:11:54 +0000

apologies again – F8 brings up menu allowing to quit full-screen mode (leaving out fullscreen in the command launches as a window). M

By: MishMich

MishMich — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:58:21 +0000

apologies, it seems to have removed the 1 and the 0 from the respective places in my text – appending colon 1 instead of 0 to the IP worked for me as well

By: MishMich

MishMich — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:55:51 +0000

Hi,

thanks for this. I am working from ubuntu on a laptop to a debian+XAMPP+drupal (plus desktop) on the back-end. Debian does not have this neat tool from what I can see, so had to set it up from the command prompt – I prefer Debian, but I couldn’t get it to work with the wireless, and Ubuntu seemed able to configure the fwcutter broadcom driver relatively painlessly.

I found that appending to the IP is what worked for me, ( didn’t). I am not clear how to terminate the session from the laptop – I tried logging out from within the laptop session, but didn’t get back to the session I launched from, so had to go back and kill the vnc server at the server. The way this set up on debian I end up going in as root – I’d have preferred to go in as user, and then su from a terminal within the session. Perhaps that is because I set it up from root?

Is there any way of launching this running from the command prompt on the client, rather than in a gnome session? What are the parameters for running the remote session as a window within the client, rather than in full-screen? I have hunted around, but would be grateful if you could point me towards any documentation.

Mish

By: lev-mike

lev-mike — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:20:12 +0000

When I try to connect ubuntu to vista I enter: vncviewer –fullscreen 192.168.0.3:0
And have next error:
VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X – built Apr 16 2008 13:23:14
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Thu Jan 22 18:54:39 2009
CConn: connected to host 192.168.0.3 port 5900
CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 4.0
CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
CConnection: No matching security types
main: No matching security types

What can I do to solve this problem? thanx

By: j03us3r

j03us3r — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:15:18 +0000

NoMachine’s NXclient works great as an alternative to the built in vnc. All comms are over SSH and the refresh rate is incredible.

http://www.nomachine.com/select-package.php?os=linux&id=1

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:46:50 +0000

I got the VNC connection to work but the GUI didn’t show up. All I can see is a command line. Is there some setting that I have wrong??

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:48:21 +0000

Thanks very much for this. The pictures are a big help. I appreciate you taking the time to do this.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:34:08 +0000

Roberto, you’d need to tunnel through an ssh session. Just search for ssh tunneling.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:27:52 +0000

Is there a way of remote desktop that include login (ie, with no open session)?

By: Najeeb

Najeeb — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:11:55 +0000

hi,,

I try with real VNC viewer

my ubunthu desktop is showing on my xp desktop , but iam not able to control ubunthu desktop
it hanging after the first screen
not even refereshing the screen…

plezs send me solution

By: Transrational

Transrational — Sun, 06 May 2007 06:23:10 +0000

I’ve enabled Remote Desktop, enabled the connection and security and installed Chicken of the VNC on my Powerbook, but when I try to connect (via my internal network, 192.168.x.xxx) I get a spinning wheel until it times out. Trying a bad address causes an immediate “Server not found,” so it seems to know there’s a machine out there, but it can’t quite start. Any ideas? Filled with bafflement, am I.

Thanks.

By: Nathan Ziarek

Nathan Ziarek — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:34:59 +0000

I don’t know what is wrong with my setup, but if I turn this on and use it for any length of time (seems an hour minimum) vino-server seems eat up all my RAM and swap file and pretty much stall my machine. I’ve not done anything more custom than what was described here; if you experience the same things you’ll either need to restart or kill the vino-server process.

By: cosmolee

cosmolee — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:03:26 +0000

Everything went as written except where I enter the IP address of the host I’m trying to access.

In your example you used:

vncviewer -fullscreen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0

But I had to use:

vncviewer -fullscreen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1

instead.

It may not be obvious to some – substitute the IP # of the machine you seek to access for the “xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” part.

Also, Ubuntu has a graphical client available from the menu: Applications->Internet->Terminal Server Client.

HTH.