On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:56 -0700, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:01 -0700, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
>> Here's what I'd like to do, I brand new to fedora and a user of mac
>> os
>> x for the last 8 years (since OSX first came out), I've heard that
>> fedora is not as virus hungry as windows. I've got a windows machine
>> thats 2 years old and would like to see the desktop of the pc on my
>> mac as well as filesharing and complete control of the headless PC...
>> any good, simple instructions out there for doing this? Thank you....
>> and if fedora isn't suited for this, can someone tell me? Jeff
> ----
> Fedora has 2 options to share it's screen with Macs or PCs...
>
> freenx or VNC
>
> The client applications for freenx are available from
>
http://www.nomachine.org and the client applications for VNC are
> available from
http://www.realvnc.com/products/download.html (the Mac
> version is called something like Chicken of the VNC).
>
> installation of freenx is something like 'yum install freenx-server'
> and
> the generally vnc server application is automatically installed ('yum
> install vncviewer' for the client).
>
> Instructions on configuration of freenx-server and vnc server are
> available via google.
>
> Craig
>
So, Craig, if I understand you correctly, all I need is the "Client
application" of either of these to screenshare on my mac? (looking at
my mac's monitor and seeing the pc)? Jeff
----
well - sort of...the clients are free to download for your Mac (Chicken
of the VNC or nx-client)
The server must be setup (in the case of freenx, it must be installed
and then set up).
FreeNX is a bit slicker, faster, better. VncServer is already installed
on your computer and all you need to do is configure it.
Craig