On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 19:01, Karel De Vriendt wrote:
I have two SuSE machines (and a couple of Windows machines).
One of the SuSE machines is connection to my network but has no keyboard and monitor attached to it. I want to use it as a fileserver (Samba) and will do the administration from my second SuSE machine.
I can open a connection to the rempote machine (remote) via
ssh -X login@remote
And then I startup a graphical session in which I will do all my work via
Xnest -name "remote" -query remote :1 & export DISPLAY=remote:1
And this works fine. I am not an expert, nor in ssh, nor in X but after reading through a number of postings on the web, that is how I got things to work.
Some questions:
- Closing the graphical session (via closing the window, I do not know another method) seems not always to stop the Xserver started with Xnest. Rebooting fileserver cures things but there must be a better way.
- The graphical session (connected to an Xserver session on remote) uses a standard (US) keyboard but both SuSE machines have been configured to work with a Belgian (azerty) keyboard. How do I indicate that I want to use a Belgian keyboard (extra parameter with Xnest command?).
- Some postings on the Internet say that all this DISPLAY stuff is not needed (and is even dangerous as this would make the connection not to use the secure ssh tunnel). But without, nothing works.
All good advise would be welcome.
Karel De Vriendt
Thanks for the various suggestions, explanations I received. I'll try out things and come back later. Karel