VNC, or Virtual Networked Computing, is a way of controlling a remote computer just

as though you are sitting in front of it. In the Windows world it is also known as

remote desktop but it s normally referred to as VNC in the Linux world. All that

happens is that you connect using a VNC client to a remote computer running the

VNC server, then an image of the remote desktop is transmitted to your local

computer and you can see and control the desktop just as though you are there

since all keyboard and mouse commands are sent from your client machine to the

server.