[KLUG Members] RE:Re: suse 9 remote x question

[Bob Kanaley]

Rusty,

Just a thought. You can avoid running X on the winbox altogether by using
VNC over SSH.

I use VNC over SSH to put a remote Linux X desktop on my winbloz desktop
with very little overhead.

On the winbloz boxen I use putty or Cedomir Igaly's SSH windows client to
setup an SSH port forwarding tunnel with compression between the winbox and
one of my Linux boxen that I use to administer all my other Linux boxen.

>From the winbox SSH term window I start up a TightVNC server on the Linux
administration box (actually I have the password protected VNC sever running
on that box 90% of the time). Then from the winbox I use a TightVNC client
to connect via a local port to the SSH tunnel anytime I need to get to the
Linux servers. I bring the VNC session up to full screen and I have the
Linux X desktop on windows. When windows blue screens, no harm is done.

I use this single administrative Linux box to setup SSH tunnels with X11
forwarding and compression to all my other linux boxen. To connect to
servers that don't run anything X, I setup single xterm windows for each
server. But in each xterm window I have screen running on the remote machine
so I can Ctrl-A as many sessions inside each xterm window to each server as
I need.

In a pinch I can get to my administrative linux box via the built in VNC web
server from any box on the LAN that has a web browser. You just have to
remember that like any X session, this is not a secure connection.

Regards,

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com



-----Original Message-----
Message: 8
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:48:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Rusty Yonkers <therustycook@yahoo.com>
Subject:
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org

> However, you should still be able to get X forwarding without
> xauth.
> Just add the -X switch when you ssh to a machine:
>
> ssh -X remote.machine.net
>

Well I was able to get it working with the ssh -X from SuSE box to
SuSE box.  I have tried it from my Windows box using Cygwin but I am
still having problems with that one.  Not sure why on that one.... I
may be firing up the Xserver incorrectly.  Any other suggestions for
a Windows Xserver?  All the others I have found so far are shareware
or commercial...