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How to use Remote Desktop in Ubuntu

Written by Mel Kham on June 14, 2011. Posted in Ubuntu

Sometimes, we need to access our computer from other locations when we’re not at home and such. This guide will explain the simplest way of enabling remote desktop connections on a Ubuntu Desktop.

I suppose you have Natty installed, if so, to Start Remote Desktop, first look for the remote desktop application as described bellow :

Once it opens, you should see an window similar to the one below.

Tick the boxes next to these two options:

- Allow other users to view your desktop
- Allow other users to control your desktop

We need to secure it a bit as well. So tick the confirmation and password box as well. Specify a password of your choice. It should look somewhat like this:

Now your desktop is shared and anyone with the password and your IP address can can access your desktop remotely.

If you’d like to test if everything is working correctly, open a terminal and enter the following:

vncviewer -fullscreen IP:0

or via remote viewer Rdesktop

Start the remote desktop viewer

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Andrew James

Great article
Adam Pole

Great article.I am new to ubuntu & this was very much useful to me.Everything explains clearly. Thank you for sharing it.I found some information about how to use Remote Desktop from Ubuntu at http://www.techyv.com/article/how-use-remote-desktop-ubuntu-linux
http://www.ubuntumanual.org abhilash

[color=purple]Ubuntu, and most Linux distributions, comes with an excellent VNC-compatible remote desktop viewer by default: Vinagre. You can find this program by clicking “Applications,” then “Internet,” then “Remote Desktop Viewer.” Open this up and you’ll see all the desktops you can open on your current network. If not, you can always enter the IP you want to connect to directly. Convert videos Ubuntu : [/color]
http://www.ubuntumanual.org abhilash

Ubuntu, and most Linux distributions, comes with an excellent VNC-compatible remote desktop viewer by default: Vinagre. You can find this program by clicking “Applications,” then “Internet,” then “Remote Desktop Viewer.” Open this up and you’ll see all the desktops you can open on your current network. If not, you can always enter the IP you want to connect to directly. Convert videos Ubuntu : [color=aqua][/color][color=green][/color][color=purple][/color][color=white][/color][color=red][/color][size=x-large][/size][size=large][/size]
http://www.ubuntumanual.org abhilash

Ubuntu, and most Linux distributions, comes with an excellent VNC-compatible remote desktop viewer by default: Vinagre. You can find this program by clicking “Applications,” then “Internet,” then “Remote Desktop Viewer.” Open this up and you’ll see all the desktops you can open on your current network. If not, you can always enter the IP you want to connect to directly. http://www.ubuntumanual.org/posts/367/how-to-setup-remote-desktop-in-ubuntu-or-any-other-linux-distribution
Jim

too bad they removed remote desktop from 11.10
I really liked it.
CHiques

Does not work with Ubuntu 11.10
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cga

I have Ubuntu 12.10 and configured Desktop remote
application as above

I have a hostname with DYNdns

I tried to connect from work using VNC using my host name and
the first time after I entered my password I got a black screen on my windows
machine and after that every time I enter the password I don’t get anything

Should I install better VNC server to connect to my machine
at home over the internet?
Vítězslav Žurek

But I cannot use this and connect to my pc from windows machine using MS remote desktop client right? If so then the application name it a bit misleading…
Tobias Holm

On my Ubuntu 12.10 this app is called “Desktop Sharing”, and not Remote Desktop…
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