On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 21:51 +0100, AG wrote: > Hi all > > I have a guest account on my machine and want to enable that user to > access that profile from another Debian machine on my LAN. This task is > called remote networking, right? And as far as I can tell OpenSSH is > probably the way to go. How can I give this user the experience (i.e. > desktop, icons, files, etc.) from the LAN machine that they would get if > they were logged in directly?
I usually do it like this: ssh -X guestu...@remotehost it'll ask for a username and a password; once you get access to the shell just call your favourite programs; the remote machine will forward the graphical parts to your pc. for a complete "desktop feel" you need to call the "gnome-session" program or the "start-kde" program. but, you should expect some minor discrepancies between this and a local session, simply because things are not 100,00% perfect, only 99,9% :D this what I usualy do.... I've even tried this approach on a SunOS to WindowsXp running mingwin for X server :) works good enough for me... cheers cheers jmf > > I'm sure that this is reasonably straight forward, but I can't seem to > find a coherent answer in a language I can understand. I'm not hugely > technical and most docs that I've come across seem to assume computer > wizardry above my ability. I'm not expecting others to do the work, but > just would appreciate a sign-post to some decent (newbie-friendly?) > documents that will enable me to give a remote user a local experience > of their user account while retaining a reasonable degree of security. > > Any ideas? Thanks very much > > AG > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281796357.2472.11.ca...@squeeje.critical.pt