How to Remote Login Your Desktops
This is an era of information. You doubt? Well, for me, even my parents have two computers in home. I believe most of people have more than one computers, no matter if it’s laptop or desktop. You may hope to manage them visually and try to login one or more desktops simultaneously. The industry provides several solution for us. I just list three of them which I usually use. They are Remote Desktop, VNC and VMWare Server Console.
The first one is Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop. Needless to say, due to over 79.32% OS market share, most of people know how to use it and love to use it. Compared to VNC, it has nice feature that you can copy from remote desktop and paste to your local machine. In my test bed, Remote Desktop transferring graphs is faster than VNC and VMWare Server Console. So, from the usability point of view, Remote Desktop is the best. However, you have to stick on Windows OS.
The second one is VNC (Vitrual Network Computing). If you try to manage several Linux boxes as well as Windows and Mac boxes, VNC is a good choice since (1) it’s light weight open source software, (2) it’s compatible with most of OS and (3) it supports KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) over IP. However, there still some drawbacks.
- You have to install VNC Server on each boxes you try to login.
- You still need to install VNC Viewer on your managing machine.
- You cannot copy and paste between machines. (At lease for Personal Edition, never tried Enterprise Edition before.)
- Transferring graphs is slower than Remote Desktop, especially when watching videos.
VNC Viewer for Fedora 4 Desktop
The third one is VMWare Server Console. Actually, this one is for remote accessing virtual machine. Normally, I am running at least four platforms in one local machine. I can login VMWare Server and use console to access each virtual machine.
After VMWare was aquried by EMC, I believe VMWare will change our ways to setup computer, since CPU will be more powerful, Memory will achieve more capacity and Hard Drive will promote to network level.