Jamie Furtner wrote: >By itself, that sets up the SSH session to forward X11 connections from >the X11 client (machine you've connected to) to your X11 server (local X >server). > >Generally you won't easily be able to run a full KDE session through SSH - >you already have a window manager running and I don't think KDE will let >itself start. What you could do is run X11 applications (KDE or otherwise) >and display them on your local X server. For instance, after opening a SSH >session (with the -X option), type in mozilla at the prompt and a Mozilla >window should pop(assuming that you have Mozilla on the server - if you >don't, try konsole or konqueror. You'll need to open the SSH session from >within an X terminal window. > >What you're probably better off looking at is VNC or FreeNX - they're >graphics based remote connectivity instead of a console and can be >considerably quicker then proxying X sessions over SSH, based on my >experience (they're actually usable!) > >Jamie > > If you are using VNC (don't know enough about FreeNX yet), are you still connecting using ssh? From what I understand, VNC is not secure.
Secondly, will you be able to see the server computer. I believe if you connect to the server using ssh, you can vnc to any other computer in that network segment if you have access. I will try running Mozilla from the prompt to see if I get anything. Thanks _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
