screen sharing on Ubuntu?

[Paul Schulz]

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On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 at 18:33 Matthias Müller <mmblnfrn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Karl,
>
> I use SSH tunneling and VNC. Works well on my side. Google for "vnc putty
> ssh tunnel".
>
> Dunno why your VNC is not performing well. This is another issue.
>
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> Matthias Müller
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> 2016-08-03 10:07 GMT+02:00 Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>:
>
>> I have a need to allow a Windows user to share my Ubuntu desktop
>> screen.
>>
>> vinagre (VNC access) does not support encryption, or at least no method
>> that RealVNC on Windows understands. I'm not prepared to have the
>> session unencrypted. Also, when I experimentally, and on my own local
>> network, allowed an unencrypted session, the result was unusably slow.
>>
>> xrdp is not quite what I'm after. xrdp allows people to log in, using
>> RDP, to a server running X and get their own X session. Their session
>> will run on the server, but be displayed locally, so they don't need a
>> local X server. Cool, but I want to display an existing session to
>> someone else.
>>
>> There's an open source thing called Synergy that looks very nice, but
>> it needs to be installed on both ends.
>>
>> Are there any workable solutions for sharing a Linux screen with a
>> Windows user?
>>
>> Note: I have successfully used GotoMeeting, but a Windows or Mac user
>> has to initiate the session. Have also used Google Hangouts, that
>> worked well. Skype worked, sorta (not well). TeamViewer works very
>> well, but it is commercial and the other person has to install
>> TeamViewer, so the same problem as Synergy. There are a dozen other
>> webby things, and several that require me to download and run some
>> Windows software :-)
>>
>> Anyone found anything good for this purpose?
>>
>> Regards, K.
>>
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