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Offline baz

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How to login to an existing remote VNC server?
« on: February 25, 2010, 02:56:34 PM »
I tried installing tightvnc and realvnc but I'm not clear on how to use them to connect to an existing vnc server rather than being the servers themselves. I also take it they don't come with the GUIs?

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Re: How to login to an existing remote VNC server?
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2010, 03:03:56 PM »
It seems there was a problem with the install - I tried it again and the vncviewer command now exists.

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Re: How to login to an existing remote VNC server?
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2010, 03:07:56 PM »
I wonder, which GUIs do you mean? AFAIK there aren't any linux vnc config guis upstream, they are Windows-only. There are separate GUIs though, like what is in Ubuntu.
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Re: How to login to an existing remote VNC server?
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2010, 03:31:32 PM »
Are the separate gui's in the repo?

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Re: How to login to an existing remote VNC server?
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2010, 03:33:25 PM »
None that I know of, but then I'm not always up to date on that ;)

Ubuntu uses IIRC a gnome client, that can start rdp and nx connections as well.
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