Remote desktop connectivity from Windows 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Question

What would be the best way to establish remote desktop connectivity from a Windows 7 machine to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6? The machines reside on the same network.

Answer 1

For graphic usage, you have at least the following options:

• SPICE (http://spice-space.org/download.html)
• NoMachine's NX Server (http://www.nomachine.com/)
• VNC (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/006apr05/features/vnc/)

SPICE is newer and pretty slick. I've used NX Server for years and it's great. VNC is pretty unsecure, so use that as a last ditch option.

Answer 2

XRDP is a Remote Desktop Server implementation for Linux. It allows you to use the standard Remote Desktop client that ships with Windows to connect to remote Linux desktops. I've had good results using it in Fedora so I'd imagine it'd handle okay in RHEL.

Here's a tutorial on setting it up: http://sirjune.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/howto-xrdp-on-fedora-rhel/