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| Jon Doe 2004-01-23, 7:25 pm |
| Hi!
I've got Red Hat 9 at home. I've currently got the SSH server installed
so I can access my machine from university (command-line only).
However, I've been wondering if it's possible to have remote GUI access
to my machine (I use Gnome when I'm at home). My university uses Exceed
on Windows to allow people to login to the Red Hat Linux servers.
Does anyone know if it's possible to do something like this. If so, do
you know what software I'd need to install on the Linux side and what
network ports I'd have to enable on my firewall to get this working?
If anyone can help, I'd be really appreciative.
Cheers,
Holden
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| kalinix 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:47:43 +0100, Jon Doe wrote:
quote:
> Hi!
>
> I've got Red Hat 9 at home. I've currently got the SSH server installed
> so I can access my machine from university (command-line only).
>
> However, I've been wondering if it's possible to have remote GUI access
> to my machine (I use Gnome when I'm at home). My university uses Exceed
> on Windows to allow people to login to the Red Hat Linux servers.
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to do something like this. If so, do
> you know what software I'd need to install on the Linux side and what
> network ports I'd have to enable on my firewall to get this working?
>
> If anyone can help, I'd be really appreciative.
>
> Cheers,
> Holden
Hey,
Depending on your box at the university:
1. if the box is Win2K and later
you can use VNCviewer;
2. if the box is WINXP you can use Remotedesktop
(just type tsclient in a console).
3. if the box is a *NIX you can enable X forwarding over ssh (ssh -X
user@remotehost - see man ssh for further details). Then enable X access
for the remote clients (xhost +the.remote.box.ip). The next step is to
set and export your remote box DISPLAY:
$export DISPLAY=your.local.box.ip
and voila, you have an remote graphic display.
Please note that if the two boxes are both RH9, you can skip all the
configuration steps above. Just ssh into remote box and run any graphical
application. Also, RH9 has powerfull tool - Remote Desktop Conection (in
fact an vncserver) which you can use at well.
Enjoy,
kalinix
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| kalinix 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| OOOPS
forgot something:
quote:
> 3. if the box is a *NIX you can enable X forwarding over ssh (ssh -X
> user@remotehost - see man ssh for further details). Then enable X access
> for the remote clients (xhost +the.remote.box.ip). The next step is to
> set and export your remote box DISPLAY:
> $export DISPLAY=your.local.box.ip
>
> and voila, you have an remote graphic display.
$export DISPLAY=your.local.box.ip should be
$export DISPLAY=your.local.box.ip:0.0
sorry 
kalinix
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