Remote desktop software for that provides a near native experience over LAN

[PingSpike]

I usually use Ultra VNC for controlling windows systems in my house and while it works OK sometimes dialogs don't update until you move a window to force a redraw and there is a bit of lag. I noticed when using vSphere to open a console view on a VM that is on network elsewhere its pretty much like if I was running the VM on my machine. I'm not really sure why that is.

I'm looking for a remote desktop setup like that that is more general and that has a client that works on linux. Or maybe I just have the settings wrong in Ultra VNC?

 

[Ken g6]

sometimes dialogs don't update until you move a window to force a redraw

That's a misconfiguration of Ultra VNC. You basically need to have it update in more situations. However...

there is a bit of lag

Fixing the former problem will make the latter problem worse.

There are other ways of doing stuff over a network. For Linux-to-Linux one of the oldest is X11 forwarding with SSH. You can open windows that display on your local machine but whose parent programs are on the remote machine. But some of the new Linux systems don't use X11, so I don't know what can be done with them now.

Windows Remote Desktop uses a Citrix protocol; I gather it's also possible to install a Citrix client in Linux, but I haven't tried recently.

 

[Scarpozzi]

If you're wanting to control Windows Systems from a Linux box, I'd go out and get Remmina. It won't do RDG, but works pretty good. I only have lockups from time to time. When you go full screen, it does a great job with look and feel (RDP).

http://remmina.sourceforge.net/

To use vSphere client, I simply run Windows 7 in Virtualbox and run it native/local there. I also have Exchange and a few other microsoft-specific apps installed on that virtualbox image to fill in the gaps where Xubuntu lacks.

FWIW, I do this on my work desktop and laptop. It works great.

 

[tnt118]

I'm unsure about linux support, but if you don't need a lot of features I've found Chrome Remote Desktop to be fantastic at work and home. We keep about 8 production computers (mostly PC, 1 mac) hooked up with it and and 3 PCs at home (separate accounts, of course).

Remote control is nice and smooth, but you don't get anything like file transfers or chat windows. Audio doesn't seem to work on the mac, and that's the only problem I've encountered so far.

 

[PingSpike]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try playing with the settings some more and give Remmina a shot.

 

[LCTSI]

NoMachine's NX solutions are very responsive (and the FreeNX open source project).

 

[manly]

Haven't used it, but Splashtop is supposed to be quite responsive:
http://www.splashtop.com/linux#download-client

 

[Scarpozzi]

Haven't used it, but Splashtop is supposed to be quite responsive:
http://www.splashtop.com/linux#download-client

When I tried splashtop, it wasn't true RDP. It required a client to be installed on the servers.

Reminna is the best.