Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Yasha Karant
On 05/07/2014 05:27 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Thank you for the information on www.nomachine.com, etc. Two points: I was not confused about the mechanisms and terminology of X windows, but the university network security czar administrati

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Thank you for the information on www.nomachine.com, etc. Two points: I was > not confused about the mechanisms and terminology of X windows, but the > university network security czar administrative (not academic) group > evidently was -- I s

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread James Fait
Yasha Karant" | To: "Scientific Linux Users" | Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 3:02:05 PM | Subject: Re: ssh -X xinit failure | | Thank you for the information on www.nomachine.com, etc. Two points: | I | was not confused about the mechanisms and terminology of X windows, | but | th

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Yasha Karant
Thank you for the information on www.nomachine.com, etc. Two points: I was not confused about the mechanisms and terminology of X windows, but the university network security czar administrative (not academic) group evidently was -- I simply "followed instructions" that clearly are incorrect,

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Matt Lewandowsky
From: Alec Habig Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 07:07 To: Lamar Owen Cc: Scientific Linux Users Subject: Re: ssh -X xinit failure Also consider using the "-C" option as well: compresses the stream. Raw X packets compress nicely. On a limited bandwidth connection this makes a huge differ

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On 05/07/2014 09:58 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 05/06/2014 10:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: ... What is the default GUI file manager (that allows an end user to "point and click" on an executable file to execute the application) that can be invoked from a remote terminal? You can invoke nautilus remo

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On 05/07/2014 10:06 AM, Alec Habig wrote: Also consider using the "-C" option as well Yes, very good information, and it is something I do.

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Alec Habig
Also consider using the "-C" option as well: compresses the stream. Raw X packets compress nicely. On a limited bandwidth connection this makes a huge difference: on a high bandwidth connection, the extra compress/decompress latency might be more annoying. -- Alec Habig, University

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On 05/06/2014 10:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: ... What is the default GUI file manager (that allows an end user to "point and click" on an executable file to execute the application) that can be invoked from a remote terminal? You can invoke nautilus remotely in either 'spatial' mode or 'file man

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:14 AM, James M. Pulver wrote: > We're actually using X2Go - an OSS continuation of FreeNX as far as I can > tell. No more going to nomachine.com at all - they have their own clients you > can download etc. It works pretty well once you install the fonts manually > into

RE: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread James M. Pulver
] On Behalf Of David Sommerseth Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 7:29 AM To: Yasha Karant; Scientific Linux Users Subject: Re: ssh -X xinit failure On 07/05/14 04:33, Yasha Karant wrote: > Thanks for the information. At my institution, we were told by the > university network security group th

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/05/14 04:33, Yasha Karant wrote: > Thanks for the information. At my institution, we were told by the > university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to > "activate" X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons. > Evidently, the persons were thinking o

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Thanks for the information. At my institution, we were told by the > university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to > "activate" X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons. > Evidently, the persons w

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-06 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 05/06/2014 07:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Thanks for the information. At my institution, we were told by the university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to "activate" X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons. Evidently, the persons were thinking of

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-06 Thread Yasha Karant
Thanks for the information. At my institution, we were told by the university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to "activate" X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons. Evidently, the persons were thinking of some other environment (MS Windows perhap

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-06 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 05/06/2014 01:38 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I am attempting to get ssh -X working to a remote machine for which I am root. Hi Yasha, I can not make heads or tails aver what you wrote: probably not smart enough. Are you able to create a simple terminal? ssh -l yasha -t -X -p port IP_addre

ssh -X xinit failure

2014-05-06 Thread Yasha Karant
I am attempting to get ssh -X working to a remote machine for which I am root. using: ssh -X (followed by the usual username@DNS-node-name), I get a login: [ykarant@akek ~]$ uname -a Linux akek.ias.csusb.edu 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 12 17:14:50 CDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 G