[wellylug] Remote Desktop

[Daniel Pittman]

Glen Ogilvie <nelg at linuxsolutions.co.nz> writes:

> I'd tend to recommend NX Server and NX Client, from www.nomachine.com
> as they are quite fast and suitable for remote access over the
> internet. It run's over SSH which is also encrypted.

I thought the NX Server was a Unix solution, and the client ran only a
standard RFB connection for Windows services?

I ask, in this case, because I am very interested in knowing if this has
changed as one of my clients may significantly benefit if it has.

[...]

> On Monday 13 November 2006 7:36 pm, Steve wrote:
>
>> Connecting to an XP computer using remote desktop, I have tried
>> rdesktop and can connect to another computer on this network fine by
>> using its address 10.1.1.4 I am not to sure how I would connect to
>> this computer from outside the network when I am away from home.
>>
>> Also is it possible to resize the window to make it bigger? And is
>> there another program that you would recommend other than rdesktop?

There is no other program; both the KDE and GNOME tools are simple
front-ends to the underlying rdesktop tool.[1]

As to setting the window size: have you read the manual page yet?

  rdesktop -g 1024x768 myhost

...or as I prefer:

  rdesktop -g 1024x768 -x b -z -a 16 myhost

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  Well, no other free tool that is in broad use.  The NX kit
     apparently does have some support for this.

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