[LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...

Brian Chee chee at hawaii.edu
Wed Sep 21 19:33:04 PDT 2011


Yup...actually 99%, the only thing I have to fuss around with is the Hyper-V
integration services...something is broken there since I can't issue a
shutdown (ACPI style) from the Hyper-V console...which is a bad thing for
autoshutdown in case of power failures, etc...

/brian


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jason Axelson <bostonvaulter at gmail.com>wrote:

> Cool, I'm glad it's (mostly) working for you.
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Brian Chee <chee at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> > Never mind...I just wasn't patient enough...it works right out of the
> > box....bitchin solution and now I don't have to teach the kids about VNC
> > until later....now to see if "Radiance" will work...berkeley opensource
> > project to simulate lighting for 3D AutoCAD drawings.
> >
> > /brian chee
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brian Chee <chee at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> That's exactly what I want...now if I can only get RDP (I'm using CORD)
> to
> >> connect....I just get a black screen...am reading the FAQ's now to see
> if I
> >> missed something.
> >>
> >> /brian chee
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jason Axelson <bostonvaulter at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> > In summary, I'd like to use VNC to connect to a server, prompt the
> user
> >>> for
> >>> > their Linux username and password (Centos 5.7) and then get their
> >>> > appropriate desktop. Basically as if they're sitting at the physical
> >>> > machine.
> >>> >
> >>> > Got suggestions? I found this one specifically about SUSE (
> >>> > http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-March/037862.html)
> but
> >>> is
> >>> > there a better way to do this?
> >>>
> >>> Hey Brian,
> >>>
> >>> This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but have you looked into
> >>> using xrdp [1]? It's a windows remote desktop server for Linux and is
> >>> pretty nice. The only thing I'm not sure about is the access through
> >>> SSL-VPN.
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://www.xrdp.org/
> >>>
> >>> Jason
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> Brian Chee <chee at hawaii.edu>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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Brian Chee <chee at hawaii.edu>
2525 Correa Road, HIG 500
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