Hi, On Saturday 06 September 2003 4:11 pm, Michael Satterwhite wrote:

I'm going to be surprised if this one is even possible, but the experts on this list have surprised me before.

Be surprised ;-)

My main machines are running SuSE 8.2. They're networked and behind a hardware firewall.

My laptop runs Windows 2000, and has to continue to do so in order to keep food on the table. I would like - while on my internal network (e.g. behind the firewall) to be able to use the Win2K machine to connect to my main Linux machine and run on it completely sharing the screen (including seeing the KDE screens if possible). This would be similar to the Windows world using PCAnywhere or NetOp to connect to another machine and essentially take it over.

Is this even possible? If so, what needs to be done?

Yes. I often connect through to my home SuSE box from a Win 2000 box at work. I use Putty to connect through via SSH, and to 'tunnel' a VNC connection for security. If both machines are behind the firewall, then you don't need to worry about using SSH. Basically you need to start up a VNC server on your SuSE machine, and then connect to it by using a VNC client on your Windows box. Try www.realvnc.com for a client. KDE offers a desktop sharing feature accessible through the Control Centre, which I think shares the current KDE desktop via VNC. However, I usually start vncserver when I SSH into my box, which starts up a new independent KDE session. I believe you can also do the reverse, view your Win2000 desktop from your SuSE box using the Windows VNC server. 'tis a neat trick. Regards, Jason