On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Mike Rushford wrote:
>
> I would like to get the Linux x session screen :0.0 to appear on the NT box
> rather than a new x server and screen session. I would like to use this when I
> want to help a friend at some problem he is having on their linux box. In this
> way he can see what I am doing on his Linux box. I would like this weather I use
> a NT or Linux box to vnc connect to this Linux box. Is there a way to do this?
I've played around with it, but have never gotten it to work. I assume
that it's not a capability, but I'm not expert on VNC.....
>
> I have been working with xmx
> http://www.cs.brown.edu/software/xmx/
> so that I could get this shared X server screen ability under Linux, does vnc
> provide the same functionality?
Haven't played with XMX, but from the website, I'd have to say no. It
looks like XMX will allow the same session on multiple boxes, whereas VNC
allows multiple session (from whatever servers) on the same box. Kind of
opposite functionality...
--Mark
