Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Remote Access to Linux Box

Remote desktop access enables you, or another person to view and interact with your desktop environment from another computer system either on the same network or over the internet.

1) Activating Remote Desktop Access
System menu, select Preferences followed by Internet and Network and click on Remote Desktop

vncviewer hostname:0

example ip: 192.168.1.101
vncviewer 192.168.1.101:0

2) Establishing a Secure Remote Desktop Session

ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 192.168.1.101

if vnc is not installed yet, root$yum install vnc

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