


In this section, I’ll walk you through setting up an SSH server, an SSH client, a VNC server, and a VNC client. In general, I have found that VNC running over an SSH connection works best for me in this scenario.ĭisclaimer: Some of you may disagree with me, and that’s ok I’m simply stating what has worked well for me in the past. In my situation, I found myself commonly using a slow VPN connection to remotely access machines on my work network from home, so I needed something fast and lightweight. There are so many different ways to do this ( Remote Desktop, NX, VNC), but some approaches seem to work better than others.

I debated not even writing this post, but I get tripped up every time I have to setup remote desktop access to a new machine. The end goal can be seen in the header image of this post. Unity) from my laptop as if I were sitting as the physical machine. Ideally, I’d like to see the same graphical display (i.e. I want to connect to a remote Linux computer from my Windows laptop.
