Unsolved
This post is more than 5 years old
1 Rookie
•
4 Posts
0
2848
September 8th, 2005 11:00
How to control local display with VNC on Linux
Greetings,
Does anyone know how I can get VNC to display and control the local desktop of a machine in Linux (Red hat EL3 WS) the way it does in Windows?
I want to be able to control a Linux desktop from 1,000 miles away so that the users on the other end can see what I'm doing and so that I can see what they are doing. I am trying to provide training for a CAM software package without having to go to this facility.
ZxZr
No Events found!
dsbInspiron
222 Posts
0
September 8th, 2005 16:00
zxzr
1 Rookie
•
4 Posts
0
September 9th, 2005 10:00
Thanks for the reply. The link you provided is a tutorial for the basic set up and operation of VNC and does not answer my question.
What I am trying to do is assume remote control of a Linux desktop so that I see the same desktop the remote users see. In Linux, when VNC server is started on the remote machine a "new" desktop is created and displayed for the vncviewer application.
In windows, VNC server renders the local desktop through VNC viewer. This menas that both the server and the client see the same desktop and the same running applications. I want to be able to do this in Linux so that I can train some remote operators on how to use a software package.
Any Ideas?
dsbInspiron
222 Posts
0
September 9th, 2005 11:00
I see what you are saying. I don't know if this is possible in Linux, I have read a few articles on it b/c I needed to do this with a machine I had at home. I was only able to get into the machine, other people couldn't see what I was doing. I will play around with it some more and see if I can figure anything out.
Sorry!
JersWork
770 Posts
0
September 9th, 2005 16:00
I'm not sure if this will help or not, but in the Windows VNCViewer app (v4) there is an option to specify which "display" to connect to, and it defaults to "0". This might be a way for you to specify which VNC session to connect to, and might allow two different users to connect to the same "display" at the same time (using a shared conneciton). Now, I also don't know if Linkux will let you VNC control a desktop on the local machine (ie, not the local desktop, but a "remote" one). If it will, then the two items combind might give you what you want.
Sorry I can't be of much mor ehelp now, but I'm currently a windows user, who has a little Unix/Linux experience (although I don't have any systems running either right now).