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Sharing your desktop with VNC

Sharing your desktop with VNC - Linux Tutorial

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Sharing your desktop with VNC

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- [Instructor] VNC or virtual network computing gives us the ability to view a graphical display across the network. This can be very useful for administering servers, monitoring software, and even for providing remote support to users. On a Linux system, the display manager runs our desktop on a virtual display that gets mapped to a virtual terminal or TDY. VNC server software acts like a virtual display interacting with software running on the system in the same way that a regular X server would using the remote frame buffer protocol. VNC client software connects to the server to view and interact with the remote system using the virtual screen provided by the server. In the past configuring VNC to provide a desktop session we could log into was a bit easier than it is now for a variety of reasons. Because there are so many different variations and limitations, I'm not going to get into it deeply here but I do want to…

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