Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[Christian Klippel <ck@xxxxxxxx>]

hi jim,

if you want it quick&dirty use vnc.
its included in the suse distro (at least at 6.4).
its not so super secure (only a pw is used) but it works and it is
a lot faster than the native x connection over network.
vnc is available for free and for linux, mac, win etc.
you even can control a win or a mac box with it, since the vnc-server
runs also on them. its a quite flexible, small and fast tool.
i use it often to administer the servers in a network.
if you have a working x on that machine simply start vncserver,
at the first time it asks for a password. then connect from the other
machine with vncviewer. dont forget to append a ":1" to the ip address
(e.g. 192.168.2.10:1). this number is determined at vncserver startup
and it tells you this number.

greetings,

chris


On Freitag, 26. Januar 2001 16:04, James (Jim) Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> First thanks for all of your notes, but I see that I did not give enough
> info.
>
> #1 I don't do windows! <G>
>
> Both of my Linux boxes are sitting here in front of me on my home lan. I'm
> at the command line of system A. B is headless. I want to telnet or ssh (or
> whatever) to system B. Run X there and have it display on A's screen. I'm
> using SuSE 6.3 on both systems.
>
> At the command line "xhost" does not work I get an error. When I telnet (or
> ssh, I tried both) to B. I run "export DISPLAY=A:0", then "startx". On A's
> screen I get all the X messages, but no GUI. Just to see I put another
> screen on B and did all this again. I got all the messages etc on A's
> screen and the GUI came up on B's screen.
>
> So any ideas?
>
> TIA!
>
> JIM
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Rouvas Stathis wrote:
> > Try : <ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/mix/> for a free X server on Win and
> > Mac.
> > -Stathis.
> >
> > Geordon VanTassle wrote:
> > > Yeah, SSH it a better bet as far as security goes, but that doesn't
> > > address the question of running X apps on Windows.  There are no free*
> > > or OSS X-servers for WIndows that I've run across.  There are some
> > > COMMERCIAL ones, (Netmanage, Exceed, etc...).
> > >
> > > However, it you're going from *nix to *nix, it's pretty straight
> > > forward, as I recall.
> > >
> > > Mikolaj Maciejak <kangoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > > > Hmm perhaps i'm wrong but u SHOULD consider security first ... Please
> > > > avoid using telnet at all , it's highly unsecure etc.
> > > > Yes we actually use such program (that allows u to telnet X-sessions)
> > > > but we only use it on our LAN , never on the internet. (to telnet
> > > > local Unix machines)
> > > > As far as i can remember it's written for windows/NT , i can't
> > > > remember it's name , but I can refresh my memory if u really want me
> > > > to , But anyway try using SSH :>
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, James (Jim) Hatridge wrote:
> > > > > Hi all..
> > > > >
> > > > > Could someone tell me (small words, big pictues <G>) how to run
> > > > > X-windows
> > >
> > > in
> > >
> > > > > telnet? IE I'm on system A and want X on system B.
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA!

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