Remote XWindow session

[Marc Lanctot]

On 22/04/09 10:09 PM, James Knott wrote:
> Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> Is it possible to set up a remote xwindow session? What I want to do is
>> connect to a remote Linux box that has no video card, but I still want
>> to be able to run a local KDE session controlling the remote Linux box
>> in a rich GUI environment.
>>
>> Is this possible, and is this easy to setup?
>>
>>
>
> Yes, that's one of the things Linux&  Unix have done for years, with X.
> You can run a full desktop, using XDMCP or just individual apps, with
> SSH and X forwading.  There's also stuff like VNC etc.
>

Rajinder,

By the sounds of your message you probably want to follow what Lennart 
suggested. If you want to do that from a Windows box you'll have to 
install an implementation of X on Windows which you can find in Cygwin.

For the record, if you just want to run a few apps rather than have the 
full rich GUI, you can use SSH like so:

   ssh -X username at host
   ssh -Y username at host

(there are slight differences in the options, see man ssh).

The benefit in this case is that it's all done over a secure connection 
(I don't think straight X is secure, but I don't know for sure).

The X programs send their graphic display commands to the host that you 
connected from, which means it has to have an X server running on it to 
display your programs. So, if you're connecting from a Windows machine 
you'd probably have to do it through Cygwin.

Marc

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