How to remotely administer a Linux box from Win XP Home PC

[greenmetal]

Hi,

I have two monitors and three machines. The one machine has windows 2000. and other two machines have Win XP Home. I have only two monitors and I use RealVNC to administer W2K machine from a Win XP machine.

Now I want to load Fedora 6 on a machine with W2K. Is there a way for me to administer this machine running Fedora from Windows XP machine?

Thanks for your time.

Greenmetal

[mwette]

I use vnc. Set up vncserver on your Linux boxes and download the vnc
client from ... RealVNC.

In /etc/sysconfig/vncservers I have something like

VNCSERVERS="4:mwette"
VNCSERVERARGS[4]="-geometry 1024x768"

[geertsky]

hello, you could try putty for ssh access but vnc is also possible google for Xvnc

[Zigzagcom]

Another great way, but more like Norton Commander/Explorer is WinScp3.82. If you have putty.exe, you can navigate the file system very easily and have the cli at your fingertips (there is a button on the menu bar, to invoke the shell). You also can transfer files easily, via scp/ssh, set permissions...tons of fun.

[snoze]

try cygwin, ssh, windows virtual PC's(version 7 is in test), vnc etc

[Doug G]

WinSCP (as mentioned), PuTTy, and VNC are the only tools I need on my XP computer to do whatever I need on any of the headless linux servers on the network.

[belsidaam]

I agree completely. I use it at worl top access my linux box.
WinSCP and Putty. Just remeber the firewall settings for ssh and scp (22 and 21)
VNC is also nice because it adds the desktop instead of a simple CLI.

[greenmetal]

What is "mwette" and "4" in your /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file?

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by greenmetal

What is "mwette" and "4" in your /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file?

If you're asking me, I don't know, never looked. vncserver worked for me without having to do anything (FC5)

[greenmetal]

For some reason I am not getting anywhere with RealVNC.

So I turned to TightVNC. But when I try to install the tightvnc-server-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm I get a message saying that "Missing Dependency: XFree86 is needed by package tightvnc-server". Can anyone can give me some what should I do to get rid of this message.

Sorry for my stupid questions but I am stranger in the Linux world.

[pdb]

The vnc package included in the FC core is vnc-server. You can install it by yum.

EDIT: IMO the SSH command line will probably be the most efficient way to do most if not all of what you want as far as server administration goes.

[greenmetal]

I installed vnc-server on my linux and on my WinXP Home I installed the RealVNC Viwer. When I started the vncserver on my Linux box, by issuing the command vncserver, I saw the following message -
New 'localhost.localdomain:1 (tm)' desktop is localhost.localdomain:1

Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/localhost.localdomain:1.log

On my windows in New Connection windows as server I tried "192.168.1.100", I got a message saying "failed to connect: Connection refused (10061)". When I tried "ocalhost.localdomain:1", I got a message saying "getaddrinfo: No such host is known (11001)"

Can some one tell me what I should I enter as my server in VNC Viewer on WinXP Home?

Thanks for your time and help.

[pdb]

You should enter the IP of the server you are trying to connect to. You will need to be sure the firewall on the Linux box has the right port open for you to be able to connect.

[wdgiles]

The standard for VNC is to start at port 5901 and work upwards from there. When it reports "localhost.localdomain:1" what it means is that you should use vncviewer to open localhost.localdomain:5901. It might work better using the IP address unless you've correctly configured your hosts file.

[tw56]

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/vnc/
This step by step how to will get it going.