Remote Desktop sharing on Linux

[Samuel Mathew]

Experts,
I hope you know about the remote desk top sharing in Windows using Netmeeting. (You can see the desktop of a remote computer and work on that computer from your desktop). Is there a program in Linux like that? I have been told of vnc, but as I understand it creates a new window from the remote computer. I would like to get a program that works like the net meeting of Windows.
Help will be appreciated..
Regards

[Paulo A G Fessel]

Try x0rfbserver. It's a VNC server that works on top of a running X-Server. I couldn't find its homepage but it's present at a number of distributions, including Mandrake and probably SuSE.

Looking at fr2.rpmfind.net, I've noticed that it's definetely present in Mandrake and Conectiva distributions. It's also on PowerTools RPM's of RH 7.1.

HTH
Paulo Fessel

[Avinoam · Accepted solution]

hello

linux has the Rdesktop package. Redhat has this package in its installation CD's.
after installing it you simpley run the command:
# rdesktop
you can find more info here : http://www.rdesktop.org/

and you can find great idea using the rdesktop here: http://linuxgazette.com/issue93/levkovich.html

Avinoam Levkovich.

[Jean-Pierre Denis]

Hi,

xhost would allow you to do this as well.

Thanks,
JP