Remote desktop on Fedora Core 5

[kenkay]

Unfortunately I am stuck using Fedora Core 5 on 5 PC’s at work and cannot upgrade. I am trying to get remote desktop to work so I log in and control any one of them from one location, but am running into some problems. I enable remote desktop, but when I use vncviewer to log into another pc I get a root desktop background and can’t control the machine. I need to be able to take control of the current desktop. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I have vino and vncserver installed

[flyingfsck]

Why use VNC? You would do better with SSH. It does everything VNC does - securely - and sshd is probably already installed and running.

$ ssh -X -C -c arcfour128 user@ipaddress "gedit /etc/fstab"

It works from Windows too - install Cygwin.[COLOR="Silver"]