Mike Dewhirst wrote:
I have a LAN with a desktop Windows machine, a semi-headless SuSE 9.1 professional box and a Windows laptop which I'd like to use as screen and keyboard to drive a SuSE bash shell while I'm developing on the desktop.
Semi-headless means I have a KVM to switch between the desktop machine and the SuSE machine under the desk. That means I can get to it any time but it is inconvenient to lose sight of one machine while looking at the other during development. I suppose I could find a monitor and keyboard from somewhere and use that but I'm running out of real estate in my "office". How can I drive a bash shell on SuSE from the laptop?
You should be able to telnet from the Windows computer to Linux, however you'll have to enable the telnet server in Linux first. A better method, is to use ssh instead of telnet, but you'd have to install a ssh client, such as "Putty" on the Windows computer. Again, you'll have to make sure the ssh server is running on the Linux system.