On Sunday 05 February 2006 19:31, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 3 February 2006 at 8:58:08 +0000, Michael Fleming wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > >> I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote > >> machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in > >> the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I > >> do have ssh to the machine. > > > > You'll have to export $DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0.0 so that the display on the > > remote machine is displayed on the local. > > Specifically, the DISPLAY environment variable states the name of the > remote host, the server number and the screen number. Normally you > only have one server, which is then 0. It's quite common to have more > than one screen: I'm writing this on echunga.lemis.com:0.0, but there > are two further screens called echunga.lemis.com:0.1 and > echunga.lemis.com:0.2. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html > for an example. > > > You'll also have to forward X11 packets, check your ssh_conf so that > > "forward X11 yes". > > This is for tunnelling over ssh. I wouldn't recommend that in a local > context. > > > I use cygwin on my work laptop ( XP ) and a openvpn connection to my > > BSD machine then fire up the display on the XP machine. > > It's possible that you'd need it here, but between BSD machines it's > just overhead. > > One thing that you don't mention is whether the server will listen on > TCP. This used to be the default, but it isn't any more. If you're > using startx, you'll have to remove the 'nolisten-tcp' option. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/desktop.html. > > If you're using KDE or GNOME, you'll probably have to do something > similar. I don't know the details, though. > > Greg
Thank you much for your response, you have clarified a couple of points I wasn't sure about. In the short run I went with running a vnc server on the box which is supported by KDE. However, I need to learn all of this as I have need for it from time to time. Looks like I have a bit homework to do. Thanks again, Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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