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Hey all,

I am trying to find out if it is even at all possible to VNC FROM the Rpi to another machine running a VNC server/RDP server.

I have scoured the interwebs to no avail.

Am I missing something obvious/ totes n00bing it/ or is it simply not possible.

( I have been able to do VNC to the Rpi from any VNC capable OS without any issues. It is the other way around that I am interested in here)

Maybe other OSs ? - Fedora/RISC ? HELP !!

many thanks

chowzen wrote: ...
I am trying to find out if it is even at all possible to VNC FROM the Rpi to another machine running a VNC server/RDP server.
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If I'm understanding what you're trying to do correctly you need a VNC SERVER on the Pi and a VNC CLIENT on the other computer(s). Examples of this can be found in the wiki at http://elinux.org/RPi_Guides .
Trev.

Try this Should give you a selection of VNC related-tools.
Remmina is a VNC client which used to work and some
others did too IIRC.

ghans

I can't speak for other VNC programs, but tightvnc has both a server and a viewer that work very well, and they are available for Windows, Linux, ARM, etc. They also have a Java enabled viewer. However the viewer has to be installed separately from the server on the pi. I have only tested it from one pi to the other, not connecting to a Windows VNC server or a Linux VNC server running on another computer, but it should work with that also. I have both the server and viewer installed on two different pis, which allows me to VNC in any direction.

So to do what you are asking "VNC FROM the Rpi to another machine running a VNC server/RDP server".

Install the viewer on the pi:

sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer

Then run:

xtightvncviewer -via $REMOTE_IP :1

Filling in the ip address of the remote VNC server you are trying to connect to for "REMOTE_IP". This will set up an SSH Tunnel to the server and choose an available PORT.

I am really befuddled by the lack of concise info on running RDP/VNC from Ubuntu to the RPi. So, installing both tightvnc and the tightvnc viewer on the raspberry Pi and my Ubuntu laptop will allow an RDP/VNC session to view the RPi desktop from my laptop?

I admit, I am not an Ubuntu/Linux expert, but would like to learn as much as possible. And since the RPi is really designed to operate "headless" in my opinion, I am frustrated that RDP/VNC sessions aren't easier to initiate.

****Edit****:
After installing xrdp and restarting my RPi, I was able to login to a newly created account via rdesktop. However, I was unable to login to the "pi" account. I realized after much gnashing and gnawing that I had changed my pi password to something including special characters. Debian (ibelieve only recognizes these characters specifically on the USB keyboard I had connected to my RPi. My laptop keyboard did not generate the same characters for authentication via rdesktop.

Setting all RasPi account passwords to only lower case letters did the trick and i was able to login to all accounts via rdesktop (but am still having trouble with Remmina. Not sure how to get past this issue (I'd prefer strong passwords on all devices on my network), but I'll let a Debian genius figure it out for me.

The importance of the remote desktop for me is learning Python without dragging my RasPi everywhere I like to work. A laptop is much easier for my wife to excuse in the bedroom