You can setup a SSH public key (http://www.noah.org/ssh/publickey/) so there is no password needed. Then just setup a icon as follows: ssh -X <username>@<host> <program> Example: ssh -X testuser@192.168.1.20 yast2 This will then connect and launch the yast2 app remotely. I use this a lot to update my servers remotely. You can use this to execute scripts remotely as well. As long as the APP does a X11 display it will then forward to the local screen. And yes it can be quicker. Since all the work is being offloaded to the server. The client is just displaying it. However note that anything done in the app is thus stored on the server. This can be nice in that you can set it up so that a user can go to any machine and execute the APP and still have their data saved. If this is the case you would want to setup multiple users on the server so that each client connects and executes the APP as that user. Brad Dameron Systems Administrator SeaTab Software www.seatab.com On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:19, steve wrote:
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 23:26, Brad Dameron wrote:
I would upgrade the server to something with a lot more memory and then launch the apps with X11 forwarding. Thus not needing a NFS server. To launch it you just do a "ssh <server>" then launch the app with "<appname> &". If there is a display problem you might need to include a "-x" with your ssh. So "ssh -x <server>".
THanks. I'd never thought of that. Is it quicker than using nfs? I'm going to try it anyway. But our students expect to click an icon on the kde desktop to launch an application. Is that possible within your scheme? I can ssh -X to the server no problem but I have to do it in a terminal window.
Cheers. Steve