Re: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem

2004-10-23 Thread Alan Dunford
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 15:38, Alan Dunford wrote: Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake 10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a server on which I back up files from the other two SNIP Thanks to all who responded to my query

[newbie] Stuck on a network problem

2004-10-22 Thread Alan Dunford
Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake 10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a server on which I back up files from the other two. Currently the server has a monitor, keyboard and mouse but I would like to run it as a straight

RE: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem

2004-10-22 Thread Bill Shirley
export USER then 'chkconfig --add vncserver' HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Dunford Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem Here I run a simple

Re: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem

2004-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 22 October 2004 16:38, Alan Dunford wrote: Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake 10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a server on which I back up files from the other two. Currently the server has a monitor, keyboard

Re: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem

2004-10-22 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Friday 22 October 2004 10:28 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Why not simply use ssh? It's very much more secure and allows you total remote control. With X forwarding enabled (default in MDK) and a fast connection you can run any app (including VNC-server) on a remote client whereas with a slow