crp 774 Posted October 16, 2013 So I clicked on the big icon to allow the desktop to be shared and entered in a password , cleared the firewall and went off to another pc. How can I connect to remotely take control? TightVNC - put in the ip address and after a few seconds it prompted for password. Then nothing RDP - nada, says nothing there. So evidently the port in play is 5900 , but no screen shows up. I tried IP:2 and IP::2 but that results in error connecting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,706 Posted October 16, 2013 Vinagre is a great remote desktop app that support VNC, SSH, RDP and SPICE. It is a gnome app but you can use it on any environment. https://projects.gnome.org/vinagre/screenshots.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crp 774 Posted October 16, 2013 since sharing the user's screen, it is :0 . Wonder how to set it up so that :1 would work . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,706 Posted October 16, 2013 Not really for sure what you are asking.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LilBambi 3,283 Posted October 16, 2013 Which Desktop Environment/GUI are you using, crp? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crp 774 Posted October 16, 2013 Which Desktop Environment/GUI are you using, crp? The default on installation, seems like some sort of GNOME. I really, really, dislike it but since this is intended as a server and not something used with any frequency I'll stick with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
burninbush 97 Posted October 17, 2013 So I clicked on the big icon to allow the desktop to be shared and entered in a password , cleared the firewall and went off to another pc. How can I connect to remotely take control? TightVNC - put in the ip address and after a few seconds it prompted for password. Then nothing RDP - nada, says nothing there. So evidently the port in play is 5900 , but no screen shows up. I tried IP:2 and IP::2 but that results in error connecting. Not clear if what you are doing should /should not work, but when I use TightVNC I have always started the server daemon on the remote machine (first). Works well here linux-2-linux or linux-2-windows. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimg 31 Posted October 18, 2013 I use x2go for remote access. It works through the ssh port (22) and has clients for both linux and windows. See http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:repositories:debian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LilBambi 3,283 Posted October 27, 2013 jimg, can you change the port? If not, I would never use it. The ssh port 22 is way too much attacked and your logs will fill up the hard drive! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crp 774 Posted October 27, 2013 jimg, can you change the port? If not, I would never use it. The ssh port 22 is way too much attacked and your logs will fill up the hard drive! really? we get lots of attempts on telnet , much less on ssh. (btw: telnet is turned off on our servers) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LilBambi 3,283 Posted October 27, 2013 Yep, telnet is another port that is hit hard. We got a lot of ssh hits as well. We switched the ssh port years ago when this was happening and have never gone back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
