Hello everyone.
I am using nx client and I would like to ask your help.
Is it possible when I connect from home to my work’s computer (using nx client) to see the exactly same desktop-taskbar and open programs as I left them in my work computer.
Imagine that you are at work using your computer. You lock the keyboard and you go home(you didn’t turn it off). You go home and you login to work’s computer. What I want to see is the same if I was just unlocking works’s computer.
On 02/07/2011 05:06 PM, alaios wrote:
>
> Hello everyone.
> I am using nx client and I would like to ask your help.
> Is it possible when I connect from home to my work’s computer (using nx
> client) to see the exactly same desktop-taskbar and open programs as I
> left them in my work computer.
>
> Imagine that you are at work using your computer. You lock the keyboard
> and you go home(you didn’t turn it off). You go home and you login to
> work’s computer. What I want to see is the same if I was just unlocking
> works’s computer.
>
> IS that possible and how?
>
> Best REgards
> Alex
>
>
I’ve played with nx (recently I haven’t so much needed to do so), my
experience is from OpenSUSE 11.2 and NoMachine NX.
What I did was that I ran it locally (localhost) and left the session
running.
Later I connected to the machine remotely and resumed the running session.
Works fine both ways.
One good thing is that it’s secure, works over ssh.
Another good thing is that it’s fast even over slow connections like GPRS.
Third point is that if the connection is dropped (often GPRS) it resumes
when new connection is established.
It is very configurable with any options you might think of.
You just have to start remote desktop on your work’s computer. It can be done by running vino-preferences under Gnome or krfb under KDE. Then you can connect and see your session using any vnc viewer. You don’t use the NX client for that. Nx client allows you - on the contrary - to open another session on a Linux server to which you have an SSH account. Even if you can use NX client also as simple vnc viewer - as it seems to be possible too according to Nomachine’ s site - this is not the purpose of this program in the first place , and you’ll still have to setup a vnc server (= allow remote desktop sharing).
> I am using nx client and I would like to ask your help. Is it possible
> when I connect from home to my work’s computer (using nx client) to see
> the exactly same desktop-taskbar and open programs as I left them in my
> work computer.
In VNC mode, yes, using remote desktop support on the desktop, but NX is
inherently a terminal server type product, not a desktop sharing product.
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:06:01 +0000, please try again wrote:
> You just have to start remote desktop on your work’s computer. It can be
> done by running vino-preferences under Gnome or krfb under KDE. Then you
> can connect and see your session using any vnc viewer. You don’t use the
> NX client for that. Nx client allows you - on the contrary - to open
> another session on a Linux server to which you have an SSH account. Even
> if you can use NX client also as simple vnc viewer - as it seems to be
> possible too according to Nomachine’ s site - this is not the purpose of
> this program in the first place , and you’ll still have to setup a vnc
> server (= allow remote desktop sharing).
I should have mentioned in my reply that using NX as a VNC client will
work (which I did) but that the additional security of NX (ie, connecting
over port 22) will not, so the connection via VNC will be unencrypted.
> Thanks a lot for making it clear.
>
> So if I got it right the only way to see my work’s workspace is to have
> vnc. No nx, no X forwarding . Is that right?
As far as I know, that is correct.
What I do is run desktop sharing (I use a GNOME desktop, so it’s under
the “Remote Desktop” settings in control center, but I configure it to
listen only on the loopback interface (firewall ports closed).
Then I ssh to the system and forward local port 5910 to remote port 5901
and turn on compression:
Then from the local system, I connect the VNC client to localhost:10
This encrypts the connection by tunneling it over VNC. VNC itself
doesn’t apply encryption, so if you want a secure connection, you’ll want
to do something similar to this with your setup.
> hendersj;2291783 Wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:06:01 +0000, alaios wrote:
>> Then I ssh to the system and forward local port 5910 to remote port
>> 5901
>> and turn on compression:
>>
>> ssh -C -L5910:localhost:5901 user@host.domain.com
>>
>>
> Can you tell me how I can to forward port in linux and how to turn onn
> compression?
In the example I provided:
-C is enable compression
-L is forward port
“man ssh” will explain this in more detail to you.
With NX Client, to see the existing desktop rather than start a new login session, I believe you may choose the “shadow” option in the initial set up options.