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? TIA Mike
On 7/23/05, Mike Dewhirst <miked@dewhirst.com.au> 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?
TIA
Enable ssh and use Putty (ssh windows client). :) -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
On 7/23/05, Mike Dewhirst <miked@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
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How can I drive a bash shell on SuSE from the laptop?
Enable ssh and use Putty (ssh windows client). :)
Great thanks Ben. Putty works wonderfully - thanks Simon Tatham :) - but I can't believe how greedy I feel now. Is it possible to run a remote KDE session on the networked laptop?
-Ben
On 7/24/05, Mike Dewhirst <miked@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
Putty works wonderfully - thanks Simon Tatham :) - but I can't believe how greedy I feel now. Is it possible to run a remote KDE session on the networked laptop?
Yes, there is TightVNC client and server for windows as well. Also, as VNC traffic is not encrypted, you can use ssh tunneling (from putty) to have an encrypted session. Cheers Sunny P.S. Reply only to the list. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Sunny wrote:
On 7/24/05, Mike Dewhirst <miked@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
Putty works wonderfully - thanks Simon Tatham :) - but I can't believe how greedy I feel now. Is it possible to run a remote KDE session on the networked laptop?
Yes, there is TightVNC client and server for windows as well. Also, as VNC traffic is not encrypted, you can use ssh tunneling (from putty) to have an encrypted session.
Thanks Sunny (and jdd and Paul) I can now use my laptop to run a SuSE session. Magnificent :) Regards mike
Cheers Sunny
P.S. Reply only to the list.
-- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Mike Dewhirst wrote:
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
On 7/23/05, Mike Dewhirst <miked@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
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How can I drive a bash shell on SuSE from the laptop?
Enable ssh and use Putty (ssh windows client). :)
Great thanks Ben.
Putty works wonderfully - thanks Simon Tatham :) - but I can't believe how greedy I feel now. Is it possible to run a remote KDE session on the networked laptop?
You can run graphical apps using X. You'll need an X server for Windows. I believe Cgwin has one.
Mike, On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:04, James Knott wrote:
Mike Dewhirst wrote:
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Putty works wonderfully - thanks Simon Tatham :) - but I can't believe how greedy I feel now. Is it possible to run a remote KDE session on the networked laptop?
You can run graphical apps using X. You'll need an X server for Windows. I believe Cgwin has one.
<http://xfree86.cygwin.com/> <http://cygwin.com/> This X server does not stand alone, but rather relies on Cygwin. The installers for the two are one and the same. Cygwin itself is an answer to a question related to the OP's one. With it you can work under Windows in a manner very similar to the way you'd work on Linux. I consider it an absolute necessity for any Windows installation and it's always one of the first things I install when I set up or take on a Windows system. Randall Schulz
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Mike,
On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:04, James Knott wrote:
Mike Dewhirst wrote:
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Putty works wonderfully - thanks Simon Tatham :) - but I can't believe how greedy I feel now. Is it possible to run a remote KDE session on the networked laptop?
You can run graphical apps using X. You'll need an X server for Windows. I believe Cgwin has one.
<http://xfree86.cygwin.com/> <http://cygwin.com/>
This X server does not stand alone, but rather relies on Cygwin. The installers for the two are one and the same.
Cygwin itself is an answer to a question related to the OP's one. With it you can work under Windows in a manner very similar to the way you'd work on Linux. I consider it an absolute necessity for any Windows installation and it's always one of the first things I install when I set up or take on a Windows system.
I actually installed it earlier today because I thought I needed to compile Apache and mod_python for Windows but decided that was too hard and went for TightVNC which works wonderfully. Big thanks to everyone who responded. Great list. Take a bow :) Mike
Randall Schulz
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.
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