Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21.15, Jim Sabatke wrote:
expatriate wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
The wife hates anything that looks like UNIX or command lines or passwords. Is there any way I can have her press a button on one box to run a program on another box?
The short answer is yes. RPC, Java RMI, CORBA etc are various methods that come to mind. I know nothing of kdesu. Can you give an example of what you'd like to accomplish?
Sure, I would like to make it easy for her to run kppp from a different box by just selecting an icon.
Use kinternet/smpppd, it has a client/server design that is intended for just this type of use. That way she gets a nice systray icon she can click to connect just as she would if she were on the machine with the modem
That looks like just what I need! Thanks! However, I've got it working on the server (modem) box, but can't connect from the networked box. I keep getting an error dialog that says: Connection to remote server refused. Maybe smpppd is not running. Also check the server settings in the dialog "Various Settings" I've tried every server config I can think of, and nothing seems to work. I also looked up the setup info on the SuSE help program. The kinternet setup does not seem to modify the /etc/smpppd-c.conf file as specified, and I can't seem to locate where the config information is kept. Do I need to enable some network service to make this work? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.