If you are connecting to the remote desktop running on an older version of Fedora, when the desktop appears you may notice that it doesn’t look much like the standard desktop:

The problem here is that we need to configure the VNC session to launch the correct desktop. To do this shutdown the VNC desktop session [...]

In the examples so far we have only covered remote access to the primary desktop. By primary desktop we mean the desktop you see when you sit at your computer and turn on the monitor. While this is fine for a single user system we should not lose sight of the fact that Linux is [...]

A similar approach is taken to establishing a secure desktop session from a Windows system. Assuming that you have a VNC client installed (as described above) the one remaining requirement is a Windows ssh client. A populuar ssh client for Windows is (PuTTY).
Once PuTTY is downloaded and installed the first step is to set up [...]

The remote desktop configurations we have explored so far in this chapter are considered to be insecure because no encryption is used. This is acceptable when the remote connection does not extend outside of an internal network protected by a firewall. When a remote session is required over an internet connection a more secure option [...]

In order to access a Linux remote desktop from a Windows system the first step is to install a Windows VNC client on the Windows system. There are a number of VNC packages available for Windows. In this chapter we will look at TightVNC.
Download and install TightVNC on your Windows system. Once installed, launch the [...]

For ystems on which the vinagre tool is not available, the vncviewer tool can be used to access remote desktops. This tool can be installed on Fedora using the following command sequence in a terminal window:
su - yum install tigervnc
The vncviewer tool is available for a wide range of operating systems and quick internet search [...]

As mentioned previously there are both secure and insecure methods for accessing a remote desktop. In this section we assume that the desktop is being accessed by a remote system on the same local network where security is not a concern. See the section later in this chapter for establishing a secure connection if you [...]