Control Another Computer Over A Network In Linux

Posted by Ruhaan Ahmed 14 August, 2008 (5) Comment

Ever wanted to get help from your friends or wanted to help some friend in doing some specific task, and you wished you could do that using a remote desktop connection but you don’t know how to remotely control a PC, doing so is very easy in Linux I will show you how to do that in this tutorial

We will use two programs for this purpose the first is called KRFB which allows you to create a VNC server so that others can control your computer remotely and the other one is called KRDC which is a VNC client which allows you to control someone’s computer remotely. Both KRFB and KRDC are easily found in the repositories of almost all Linux distro’s so installing them isn’t too much of a hassle

Now if you want someone to control your computer remotely start up krfb and you will get a windows similar to this:

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