On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Stan Orlov <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Greetings, > > We've just installed Scientific Linux with the hope to migrate some of our solutions from Windows to Linux. I ran into a problem with VNC and posted to this list, but nobody replied to it. I am stuck and really hope to find guidance online. Can anyone suggest a list/forum that would be better suited for such questions? Please include a fresh copy of the question, or a pointer to the original note on the archives. I *wrote* the first published port of VNC to SunOS way back when, which was a pain in the keister due to X11 version incompatibilities. It's gotten much, much easier to use since then. I'll also point out that VNC used to have some significant security issues with keeping passwords in clear text in $HOME/.vnc/, which I think has been much reduced. If you decide that the X server built into your VNC client isn't good enough, you can also consider the personal or even professional versions of NX, which is available from https://www.nomachine.com/. The big advantages are that it's a better user interface, better local X server on your clients, and provides *much* better handling of multiple users on your Linux server. It does not replace Remote Desktop, which is the preferred and more stable way to log into a Windows box remotely. Frankly, there are a number of scammers out there who will talk you into running VNC or tools like it on your Windows box, and then monitor you rWindows use remotely. And VNC doesn't have a good concept of "only use one copy". People tend to run numberous VNC servers because they've simply lost track, and those are chewing up time and leaving open security vulnerabilities if mishandled.