On 11/08/2013 02:49 PM, Ted Byers wrote:
I have a couple servers, using a KVM to have them share a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Alas, it looks like the monitor has died.
I also have a workstation in which I have OpenSuse running within a virtual machine. I can ssh from that virtual machine to these servers, but I am not yet comfortable with using only a terminal to work on a computer (I did so decades ago in the days of DOS, but that was a lifetime ago, and I don't recall anything useful from that time).
Is it posible to have some kind of GUI, either KDE or Gnome, that runs over ssh to let me work on those machines, at least until I can get out to get a replacement monitor? Ideally, whatever is suggested would be viable for both the Ubuntu server and the Opensuse server.
Thanks
Ted In addition to X Forwarding, you can also use VNC to see a virtual copy of the remote server's display. Run a VNC server, such as x11vnc or one of several different Windows vnc servers available (though I don't remember any names of them at the moment), and then you can run a vnc client on your OpenSuse workstation.
The vncviewer (client) I use has a "-via" option that will tunnel from your local workstation through SSH to the VNC server port (default 5900) on the remote server host. If you use x11vnc at the server, you can even scale the remote display to appear better on your local workstation, if the remote server's display size is greater that your workstation. That works great for me when using my laptop to view my remote desktop at my office. If the VNC client you install doesn't have the "-via" option, you can always use SSH to create the tunnel you need, e.g., "-L9999:localhost:5900". You can run x11vnc on the remote server in the ssh session where you create the tunnel, then run "vncviewer localhost:9999" on your local workstation. These are the basics, but there are many more possibilities using VNC. See the man pages, and Google. Have fun. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org