Remote X?

Robert Slade ubtu at bathnetworks.com
Sun Mar 26 16:51:08 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 10:43 -0600, Gromitigo wrote:
> Is there a way to view the desktop over the network like VNC?
> I'm wanting to set up a ubuntu server but it won't have a monitor,
> keyboard, etc.
> The maching I'll be using to connect from is running WinXP.
> I need a way to get to the GUI, telneting to the command line to do
> things on the server isn't an option for what I need it to do.
> 
> Thanks,
> Grom
> 

See TightVNC Server in the packages. it is also available for XP. 

BTW you should be using SSH to connect rather than insecure telnet. Use
Putty on XP.

Rob

Rob





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