[ale] how do I get graphical remote access to my linux machine

[Neal Rhodes]

We've used the NX machine client for my wife/partner's desktop for, uh,
Fedora Core 1, 3, 10, and now Centos 6.  It has worked great on all. 

It seems to be pretty flexible regarding old client/new server, new
client/old server, etc. 

Having recently set it up on a Win7 client to the Centos server, what I
remember was that it only worked if the connection was encrypted. 

I'd suggest you give that a smidge more effort.   As I recall, there is
no startup once you install the NX server, as it gets started from an
ssh login session.   There is a little bit of setup on the client side,
as above, don't turn off encryption. 

Neal Rhodes
MNOP Ltd


On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 01:53 -0400, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I moved my linux machine downstairs to make room in my work area 
> upstairs since I don't have room for 2 desktops.  I need to get 
> graphical remote access to the downstairs linux machine (Mint 13) using 
> my Windows 7 machine as the client.  The linux machine is within my 
> firewall at home, so I don't need super strong security.  A simple login 
> username and password is sufficient.  I tried to get nxserver from 
> nomachine running.  It's installed, but I couldn't seem to get it 
> configured using the text based commands to set it up.  I'd like to be 
> able to do administration of the user database via gui or, better yet, 
> just have it use the user database already built into Mint.  NX has a 
> graphical administration option, but it appears to depend on having 
> apache installed.  I don't want to do that.  The fewer server processes 
> I have running, the better it is for security.  Both client and server 
> will be on the same wifi router using wpa encryption.
> 
> Can someone tell me an easy way to do this?  I just need one graphical 
> server and one graphical client.  I'm not stuck on nx if there is a 
> better solution.  Having the session encrypted would be nice, in case I 
> decide to access it from outside my house at some point.  In that case, 
> I'd beef up the login credentials.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 
>