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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: Ice-9 on 3 July 2002, 18:30
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I found this cool little application, VNC, which allows you to take control of another desktop remotely.
Much like PC Anywhere but completely freeware!!
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html)
It's available for Windows, Linux/Solaris and Mac.
this is probably gonna solve my problem of remotely controlling a box regardless of it being a Linux or Windows box.
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I have been using that for about 4 years now to administer NT servers from Linux. And it's been included with RedHat for some time now.
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Oh wow, I think I'll get that a fiddle with it.
Thanks for contributing Ice9.
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sounds like fun
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I use VNC for my Linux -> windows computers all the time.
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Ok, I'm back from holiday, time for some action again (http://smile.gif)
What could be the reason I can't connect with it from a Linux box to a Windoze box?
Win - Win = no problem
Lin - Win = no go
Do I have to configure Samba or something like that?
I extracted the tar.gz file, copied the apps in /usr/local/bin and vncviewer starts up, I get the little box where I have to enter an ip
In Windoze I enter it, reeive a prompt for a password and I'm in, but with Linux I enter the ip and nothing happens .....
I can ping the win box no problem though.
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you have to install the vncserver on windows and the vncviewer on linux for it to work from lin -> win.
if you want win -> lin, then install the vncserver on Linux and the Viewer on Windows.
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That's what I did, I want to connect from a dual boot Lin/Win box to a Win only box.
Win only box runs the vnc server and when I connect to it from the Dual boot box using Windoze it connects fine, but not when I try to connect to the Win only box from the dual boot box using Linux.
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I use VNC at lan partys as the GULP team have a projector and what better way to spectate certain things. Its also a good joke if you like use it too open paint and right "You are going to die" when your mums playing card games.
Or just rebooting someones computer!
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quote:
Originally posted by Ice9:
That's what I did, I want to connect from a dual boot Lin/Win box to a Win only box.
Win only box runs the vnc server and when I connect to it from the Dual boot box using Windoze it connects fine, but not when I try to connect to the Win only box from the dual boot box using Linux.
does it just do nothing? Did you put in the right password? the right IP?
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In Linux, all I get is a little window "server dialog" wher I have to input the ip, I input it and the ip field in the window goes blank again and nothing happens.
When I do exactly the same from Windoze I get a password prompt and next thing I know I'm looking at the desktop of the box I'm connected to :/
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Try typing:
vncviewer ipaddress
from a shell.
[ July 27, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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it works fine for me
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right now i am 100 miles from home, accessing my brother's box on windows, and i am horrified to find that someone has rebooted my box to windows. at least vnc is cool.
what about security?
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There are VNC hacks out there. You should at least restrict what IPs/networks can access the VNC port.
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quote:
Originally posted by VoidMain:
Try typing:
vncviewer ipaddress
from a shell.
[ July 27, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
Thanks a lot Voidmain, this way it works.
Can you think of any particular reason why it doesnt work when I start up vncviewer and type the ip in the box (like I do when connecting from Windoze)?
I thought maybe it had something to do with my firewall not letting the packets pass through but if it works from the console it's obviously something else.
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I don't know why it does that. Personally I've never seen it actually work from anywhere other than a shell and exhibit the problem that you described. I don't know if it is just a RedHat thing or what. At any rate I haven't found it to be so much of a problem to try and figure it out since it works from the command line just fine.
Oh, and one more issue you may run into if you are using it under KDE. You may find that <CTRL><ATL><DEL> is a KDE key mapping and does not work in VNC if you leave the KDE key combo mapped. This will be a big problem if you are VNCing into an NT or Win2K box. Fortunately it is really easy to change the key mapping in KDE:
"Control Center"->"Look & Feel"->"Shortcuts"
On the right panel, find the "Action" that uses the key combo "Alt+Ctrl+Delete" and remap that action to a different key combination (or just don't assign any key combo to that action). Then you can use the CTRL+ALT+DEL combo in vncviewer.
[ July 30, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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A Remote Access Trojan eh? You Mikrozopht h8orz really think of lame ideas... May I interest you in some brown?!?
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i dont think LoL knows what a trojan really is. I dont think he can read either. He posted a bug in YaBB and claimed that it was our UBB that had the bug. I also told him to chekc his pm and wrote i PM just to see if he could read. Nevertheless he hasnt answered any of my posts or read his PM.
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quote:
Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:
i dont think LoL knows what a trojan really is. I dont think he can read either. He posted a bug in YaBB and claimed that it was our UBB that had the bug. I also told him to chekc his pm and wrote i PM just to see if he could read. Nevertheless he hasnt answered any of my posts or read his PM.
Woah man goto that site again... It sez the bug is for BOTH yaBB and UBB... And I havent checked for any PMs yet... No, I cant read, I am completely illiterate! That is why I am writing this reply!
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This isn't a trojan. You install it to administer computer remotly. If the guy who uses the computer at the time doesn't want to enable it, he just right clicks it and quits.