on 16:07 Fri 11 Mar, shawn wilson (ag4ve...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dan <ganc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I think > > that I will not install the X-Server. But I would like to run remotely some > > gnome X programs with ssh. Which package should I install to do this, only > > xauth or I also need xbase-clients plus the gnome programs? > > > > Is it better for a File Server to make a text-based installation or it is > > recommended to install also the X-Server to have GUI in the server? > > > file server != application server. personally, i enjoy running linux (or > bsd) based file servers rather than emc and the like. however, if you run > gui applications, it will take up some of the network resources (and disk) > for your application.
This is a minimal consideration, really, for modern server systems. > if you want to run x windows apps, you need the x server (i think that's Incorrect. > just xserver-common). and you'll want to look at these in ssh_config: > ForwardX11 no > ForwardX11Trusted yes > > that's really about it. just ssh -x <host> and export DISPLAY=0:0 > (iirc) and launch whatever you want. No export is necessary. In fact, that will break SSH's X11 forwarding, as it creates its own socket and sets DISPLAY appropriately. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell! -- 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/20110312010831.gg26...@altaira.krellpowersys.exo