Re: Using xvncviewer to talk to Windows remote desktop?
Op di, 23-11-2004 te 16:05 -0600, schreef Kent West:
> Bill Wohler wrote:
>
> >I can use the Remote Desktop under Windows XP to display the desktop of
> >a particular Windows machine. I thought that I could install xvncviewer
> >on my (much-preferred) Debian box and run "xvncviewer windows-host-name"
> >and it would be similar. But xvncviewer says "Connection refused."
> >
> >What am I missing? The man page was lacking and a
> >/usr/share/doc/xvnc4viewer/README.Debian was absent.
> >
> >
> >
> You either need vncserver installed on the Windows desktop,
> or you need to use rdesktop instead of xvncviewer on the Linux box.
Correct. And a neat Gnome frontend for both rdesktop and vnc-viewer
would be tsclient (available in testing). Installing it will also pull
in rdesktop.
--
Met vriendelijke groeten / kind regards,
Olav
Reply to: