On 4/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Whyte</b> <<a href="mailto:david.whyte@gmail.com">david.whyte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 4/3/06, Phill Edwards <<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com">philledwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Correct me if I'm wrong VNC will not allow you to log into an existing<br>> > session, correct? I know X11VNC does.
<br>><br>> I know what you're saying but it seems to work for me - somehow. I<br>> just start up a VNC viewer client on my Windows PC and see the<br>> mythfrontend menu etc. I presume that's what you want to do too.
<br>><br><br>Yeah, this vnc server is started when the OS is loaded and hosts what<br>you see on display 0 (if you pardon the non-techy speak). It doesn't<br>have the processing overhead you used to get with X11VNC either.
<br><br>Side Note: Ubuntu has a similar thing built in that they call Remote<br>Desktop (sound familiar??), however, a user must be logged in for the<br>session to be running :(<br><br>Whytey<br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br>If I need to access an existing desktop remotely I usually just ssh in and start the process manually, then run vnc and when finished i kill the x11vnc for security.<br><br>It would have to be said though that 99% of what I do on remote machines is achievable through and SSH CLI
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br><br>~CM