[plug] VNC access to an Ubuntu machine (or perhaps XDMCP)

[Matt Austin]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Gregory Orange
<gregory.orange at rpsmetocean.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm dancing around a solution to this, but I'd like some advice from those
> who know more than I - probably most of you :P
>
> At the other end of a VPN connection we have an Ubuntu virtual machine we'd
> like to access, preferably (due to my colleague's discomfort with command
> line) straight to a Gnome session. The 'source' machine is running Windows.
> Three options jump out:
>

Hi everyone,

I'd recommend "no machine": http://www.nomachine.com/

Works much better than VNC, and runs as a service so you don't have to
be logged in. DIsadvantage is that it is not open, but free (as in
beer) linux versions are provided, as well as clients for windows and
macs.

Cheers,

Matt.