On April 21, 2004 02:31 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The wife hates anything that looks like UNIX or command lines or passwords. Is there any way I can have her press a button on one box to run a program on another box?
Sure, but it will require some bash scripting. Theory follows: 1. ssh -l <username> -X <IP address> will give you an ssh shell with X forwarding active on SuSE systems. 2. X forwarding allows you to call any X capable program from one machine to another via an ssh tunnel, so calling acrobat from the command line once the tunnel is active will result in acrobat appearing on the client machine. 3. The trick will be to create an icon on her desktop, that runs in a shell and that calls the above requirements all on one line including password authentication. This can be a challenge. 4. Sorry but my bash skill are not up to par to give you a recipe. Some reading and you should be able to test and figure it out. Or ask this list. 5. Create an icon for each application she want to run on her desktop that is available from the remote machine. 6. Should work...in theory. Regards /ch