On Wed Aug 05 1998, Jim Roland wrote:
> Is there any such thing as an X windows version of a telnet session?
Yes, of course there is!
One of the more powerful features of X is the ability to run X applications
remotely but for the window to appear on your local X server.
> Basically, I'd like to be able to get an X windows session via remote just
> like one would get a shell prompt (and run programs like pine). Thanks in
> advance.
I hope I'm understanding you correctly in that you didn't know about this.
It's a little more complex that just this quickie mini-howto (read all the
man pages!), but in a nutshell:
With telnet (or rlogin):
- run xhost or xauth and specify the remote machine.
- telnet or rlogin to that machine
- set the DISPLAY variable on the remote account to point to
your local X server, eg:
export DISPLAY=mylocal.box.here:0.0
- run any X application, such as xterm
- the xterm will appear on your local X window!
If you have your account on the remote machine set up so that ssh or rsh is
working, it can get even easier to do...
With rsh:
- run xhost or xauth as above, then do something like:
DISPLAY=mylocal.box.here:0.0 rsh -l username remote.box.there xterm
(and up will pop the xterm on your local machine).
With ssh do the following (and this is my favourite):
DISPLAY=mylocal.box.here:0.0 ssh -l username remote.box.there xterm
(The DISPLAY variable needs to be set if it isn't run from a local xterm,
but the xauth stuff will be done for you by ssh, with the added bonus that
everything is secure and encrypted. And if you startx via ssh-agent and
then run ssh-add, you don't even need to enter your passphrase).
But don't try to do this over a modem - it's horribly slow!
There is an application/daemon that will compress remote X to make it work
better over slow links... I'm not sure that this is, and I'm hoping someone
might chirp in to tell us all what it's called. (Heh, I could make VERY
good use of it myself!)
I hope this has pointed you in the right direction...
Cheers .
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