3 thoughts on - Remote Desktop Recommendations

• I use tiger VNC myself, but I don’t access my desktops from a Windows client. I assume any Windows VNC client should work with the tiger VNC server, though.

  yum install tigervnc-server

• At 06:35 PM 11/16/2014, you wrote:

  My recollection (as inaccurate as it may be), is that VNC protocol is painfully bandwidth-intensive, unlike the NX and X2go systems. I’m reluctant to switch to it. But, if that’s all that works, I might have to. Thanks for the input. David

• David,

  You didn’t indicate whether you are trying to do this on a LAN or across the public Internet? Classic VNC is not a secure protocol, but there are variations of it that are secure.

  If you just want to run GUI programs rather than fully “screen share,” then you can use an X Windows client or xpra.

  I have done all this using OS X so honestly I am not familiar with the Windows clients to recommend. I have used Cygwin, but only to run command line programs such as ssh, rsync, etc. Others will have to make suggestions based on actual experience.

  Mark

  MARK H RICHER, MS CS
  NPS-NCR Digital Forensics Lab IT Manager Computer Science Department Naval Postgraduate School – National Capital Region (NCR)
  900 N Glebe Rd, Rm 5-182, Arlington, VA 22203
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  Folks

  I’m looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a CentOS 7 server from a Windows client. I have tried:
  – X2go from EPEL (fails immediately, apparently they are working on a solution, but…)
  – Freenx (doesn’t exist for EL7)

  Both the above work fine with CentOS 6.

  Are there any known working solutions?

  Thanks…

  Mystified but not urgent in San Francisco David