Remote XWindow session

[devguy-DaQTI0RpDDMAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org]

Hi Marc,

thank you for the very detailed help!

I know for myself I find the GUI environment a bit easier to be able to administrate Linux. So I would like to be able to admin a dedicated remote server that I plan to host my site on.

Right now I can try to set up this environment locally with my 2 PC

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Fri, 4/24/09, Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Remote XWindow session
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Friday, April 24, 2009, 9:30 AM
> On 24/04/09 09:24 AM, Marc Lanctot
> wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> I should have mentioned two more things:
> 
> 1. Once you're connected to the remote host any programs
> you start with 
> X will be sent through SSH (obvious, I guess).
> 
> 2. Your remote host has to enable X11 forwarding through
> SSH. Make sure 
> its /etc/ssh/sshd_config has:
>     X11Forwarding yes
> if not, enable it, and restart ssh:
>     /etc/init.d/ssh restart
> 
> Marc
> 
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