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If you're running Linux workstations you can connect using either SSH or Telnet and get

If you're running Linux workstations, using SSH precludes the fact that the administrator realises that telnet is a major security risk. So he/she would have disabled its use. It should be SSH or nothing, if you care about your data.

it to pass the remote server information to your workstations X windows gui, giving you

Note that there is no such thing as "X Windows". It's called "X Windowing System", or "X11", or "X", but never "X Windows".

full control over the server, as if you were sitting at the machine. I've never done this myself, I'll confess, but I do know lots of people regularly do this and that its reportedly quite easy to do.

It is "easy" to do. The process is called "X11-forwarding" and allows programs on the remote machine *appear* to run locally on the machine that initiated the ssh connection [1]. On the server (that will hence be running sshd) you can edit the file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config And in that file, you will see: X11Forwarding no Chaging the above to "yes", and restarting the sshd will mean that from your workstation, you can then do: ssh -X workstation and can then run X11-commands. Note the "-X" flag to ssh, that tells it to use X11-forwarding.

Two product names that spring to mind are Webmin and Linuxconf, although again I have no personal experience of using them.

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