Can someone on the list point me to where I can read about how to access a remote X-Server from my Linux box? I need to access another Linux box with my Linux laptop, and it would be nice to do it with X. The other box supposedly has X set up already for XDCMP, and people can use Hummingbird Exceed to get a remote X session. I've read the X and XDCMP howto's, but they don't really discuss this. Thanks, -ronc
Would VNC work? Matt -- "The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves." On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ron Cordell wrote:
Can someone on the list point me to where I can read about how to access a remote X-Server from my Linux box?
I need to access another Linux box with my Linux laptop, and it would be nice to do it with X. The other box supposedly has X set up already for XDCMP, and people can use Hummingbird Exceed to get a remote X session.
I've read the X and XDCMP howto's, but they don't really discuss this.
Thanks,
-ronc
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Never used it before, but it lets you view your X desktop on another computer. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ Let me know if this is what you were looking for, I have never used it though... Matt -- "The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves." On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ron Cordell wrote:
What is VNC?
-ronc
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 17:01, you wrote:
Would VNC work?
Matt
Hi!
here's a description of the VNC package
Package "vnc"
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A virtual X-Server
With vnc you can start a virtual X-Server and get access to it from
different machines with the vnc-viewer. You can change the machine without
terminating your session.
Viewer and server are also available for Windows - they allow access to
vnc under windows. You can find it under /dosutils/vnc on the first CD.
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I had use it for a while and works fine between SuSE and windows98.. but i'm
not shure about it's security...
:D
Regards
Alfredo
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From: StarTux
Never used it before, but it lets you view your X desktop on another computer.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Let me know if this is what you were looking for, I have never used it though...
Matt
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ron Cordell wrote:
What is VNC?
-ronc
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 17:01, you wrote:
Would VNC work?
Matt
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On Tuesday 12 June 2001 05:15 pm, Alfredo Flores H wrote:
Hi! here's a description of the VNC package
Package "vnc" ___________________________________________________________________________ _ I had use it for a while and works fine between SuSE and windows98.. but i'm not shure about it's security...
:D
Regards
Alfredo
Hello, VNC works great. I have accessed my son's desktop (win2k) at the University of CA, Santa Barbara, and viewed it here in Nebraska on my linux box. He was looking for a way to use his lab computer from home. He is very pleased that I suggested VNC. However, it sucks for me, as I only have a dial-up modem connection, and it is slow. If you have a high speed connection, you're set. -- TRBishop tb64710@alltel.net RLU #12043 SuSE 7.1 PRO
In "Options" you can set VNC to restrict pixels to 8 bit. This can help with performance. I have also used a product called "RAdmin" which allows remote control and file transfer capabilities and is faster than VNC. Slight cost however (US$50 per licence?). David
-----Original Message----- From: TRBishop [mailto:tb64710@alltel.net] Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2001 13:52 To: Alfredo Flores H; StarTux; Ron Cordell Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Remote X Server
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 05:15 pm, Alfredo Flores H wrote:
Hi! here's a description of the VNC package
Package "vnc"
__________________________________________________________________ _________
_ I had use it for a while and works fine between SuSE and windows98.. but i'm not shure about it's security...
:D
Regards
Alfredo
Hello, VNC works great. I have accessed my son's desktop (win2k) at the University of CA, Santa Barbara, and viewed it here in Nebraska on my linux box. He was looking for a way to use his lab computer from home. He is very pleased that I suggested VNC. However, it sucks for me, as I only have a dial-up modem connection, and it is slow. If you have a high speed connection, you're set. -- TRBishop tb64710@alltel.net RLU #12043 SuSE 7.1 PRO
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Hi David and All, Nice of you to mention vnc I think its great, keaX is a pain to set up but vnc was quite easy however I do get a lot of bug reports for vnc and using kde2 where as kde works fine. Regards Matt David Milligan wrote:
In "Options" you can set VNC to restrict pixels to 8 bit. This can help with performance. I have also used a product called "RAdmin" which allows remote control and file transfer capabilities and is faster than VNC. Slight cost however (US$50 per licence?).
David
-----Original Message----- From: TRBishop [mailto:tb64710@alltel.net] Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2001 13:52 To: Alfredo Flores H; StarTux; Ron Cordell Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Remote X Server
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 05:15 pm, Alfredo Flores H wrote:
Hi! here's a description of the VNC package
Package "vnc"
__________________________________________________________________ _________
_ I had use it for a while and works fine between SuSE and windows98.. but i'm not shure about it's security...
:D
Regards
Alfredo
Hello, VNC works great. I have accessed my son's desktop (win2k) at the University of CA, Santa Barbara, and viewed it here in Nebraska on my linux box. He was looking for a way to use his lab computer from home. He is very pleased that I suggested VNC. However, it sucks for me, as I only have a dial-up modem connection, and it is slow. If you have a high speed connection, you're set. -- TRBishop tb64710@alltel.net RLU #12043 SuSE 7.1 PRO
Starting X with parameter -query <hostname> will start up a remote X session Regards Anders On Tuesday 12 June 2001 23:59, Ron Cordell wrote:
Can someone on the list point me to where I can read about how to access a remote X-Server from my Linux box?
I need to access another Linux box with my Linux laptop, and it would be nice to do it with X. The other box supposedly has X set up already for XDCMP, and people can use Hummingbird Exceed to get a remote X session.
I've read the X and XDCMP howto's, but they don't really discuss this.
Thanks,
-ronc
* Anders Johansson
Starting X with parameter -query <hostname> will start up a remote X session
Remember to allow it on the machine you query, look in /etc/X11/xdm/ -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
Yet another way is opening an xsession on your own machine with an xterm as WINDOWMANAGER, then ssh'ing to the server machine and running there startkde or another windwomanager. You must have X11 forwarding enabled on both client and server machines for this to work. If you only want to run one program from the server, starting your windowmanager locally and just running the program over ssh is probably a better idea as running things over a network is rather slow.
From Anders Johansson to Ron Cordell and suse-linux-e@suse.com about Re:...:
Starting X with parameter -query <hostname> will start up a remote X session
Regards Anders
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 23:59, Ron Cordell wrote:
Can someone on the list point me to where I can read about how to access a remote X-Server from my Linux box?
I need to access another Linux box with my Linux laptop, and it would be nice to do it with X. The other box supposedly has X set up already for XDCMP, and people can use Hummingbird Exceed to get a remote X session.
I've read the X and XDCMP howto's, but they don't really discuss this.
Thanks,
-ronc
-- dieter
Starting X with parameter -query <hostname> will start up a remote X session
This is the only really correct response I have seen to this question so far. VNC is nice - I use it a lot if I want to access a Unix machine from a Windows platform, or a Windows machine from Unix. Howerver it is completely unecessary if you have two Unix machines running X, because X is already a networked graphics environment. What you end up with is a client using a network protocol to access the XServer, and the X-Server using another network protocol to access the display hardware. The original question indicated that the server system was known to be already serving XDMCP, so nothing needs to be done there. The options I see are: 1. Run your server with the '-query' option as above. 2. Run your server with '-broadcast' to get a menu of all hosts willing to manage your display. 3. Run Xnest with either '-query' or '-broadcast' to provide an X terminal within a window. I personally run option 2 on a standalone X terminal, so that I have completely equal access to all machines on my net, and don't have to listen to fans and disk drives under my desk. Plus I don't have to buy a fancy graphics card for every new machine. Option 3 is probably the easiest to experiment with if you don't feel comfortable changing the way your console X server starts up. Of course you still have complete access to all the X machines on the network, regardless of which one manages you display. The choice of display manager. XDMCP really just saves you having to customize your desktop on every machine as you would if you were always managed by the local machine. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt@acm.org http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk
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