What I really want is the behavior that the VNC server which used to live on my Windows desktop exhibited. I would go to connect to it, it would ask for a password, I would give the password, and it ...

This two-part series presents a novel way to set up a VNC-based X Window System desktop for your Linux system. By the end of this two-part series, you'll have a configuration that allows users to log ...

In Part 1 of this series, we learned how to set up transparent usage of a VNC desktop both remotely across a network and on a console, via a display manager, in such a way that the same desktop (and ...

The only thing I can think of is to install Cygwin & setup an ssh server on your XP machine. Then you can ssh into Windows from your Linux box and start the VNC service on the command-line using the ...