The nature of the VNC server, which controls the window manager and the applications, permits this. Therefore, any computer on the network can run a VNC client (such as vncviewer) to connect to the ...

Now from your Linux box, open up your default remote desktop viewer, enter the IP address of your Windows VNC server and connect.

Where can I get more info on running a VNC 4 server on FC1? I know a linux VNC server is a totally different beast than a windows VNC server. I got it to ...

The linux VNC server still can't be connected to, even when I re forwarded port 5800 and 5900 to the linux box.

Most Linux distributions and even macOS come with a version of this VNC protocol built-in. RealVNC is proprietary software that uses this open-source protocol.

In my case, I end up using VNC to connect to the CentOS 6 server, and in GNU/Linux VNC can communicate directly with X11 so that the console can still be at a text logon prompt while I'm connected ...