On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:02 -0500, Eric Bambach wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Eric Bambach wrote: > > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration > > > but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. > > > > Getting a GUI interface for ssh is easy. Simply start > > ssh from an xterm, login to the remote server and execute > > xterm. This will cause a remote xterm to appear on your > > local X display. > > > > Instead of a remote xterm, you can start a remote > > window manager (or other X application) the same way. > > Hehe, I stand corrected. I suppose *I* usually think of it as more of a > console administration app. Anyways, this is not a good solution if you are > logging in from a windows or "other" OS based machine. You would have to > install a local X-server which may or may not be practical or useful. > > Additionally, as others pointed out you can tunnel X connections over SSH. > While this is true the X protocol by itself is quite heavy and lag and > interactivity will be less than spectacular on anything less than 10Mbit. > This is why I suggested NX Server for GUI administration because it does some > quite spectacular compression and caching I havent seen in other projects > (though I admit I havent done alot of diggin on the subject, only raw X, > lbxproxy, ssh compression, and VNC each of which has its own caveats) > > Cheers, > > Steven
You don't have to pay for an NX server: for example... http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8139 An interview with Fabian Franz and Kurt Pfeifle regarding the FreeNX server. I played with it on my small home network and it works well. Unofficial Debian packages here: http://kanotix.com/files/debian/freenx/ They may also exist in Debian Sid, I haven't checked (I'm running Ubuntu here at the moment) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
