Dear Asheesh,
I tried to make head or tail what you said and let me sum it up for
checking.
I connect two computers together through the serial ports(com2). One of
the computers is equipped with full linux mandrake with Gnome window
manager. The other computer is just a motherboard, a 486-DX2 with 4Mb
memory and 512k video memory + iocard, and a 5.25 floppy drive.
What i have gathered from your writing is the following. Make a linux
boot disk and boot the "stupid computer". You will have a text terminal.
Now you telnet to the server and do the steps listed. You will have kde
running on the "stupid computer" which you can be activated by ctrl-alt-f7.
you exit from the telnet session. you follow the remaining steps.
Could you please verify wether these steps are right or wrong, whether the
hardware configuration is proper for this or not.
Thank you in advance,
Gabor
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> You can remotely set up a graphical thingy using the following commands:
>
> (Assuming that "server" is the headless computer, and "workstation" is
> your machine that you can do stuff on, like us a monitor and email the
> Mandrake lists)
>
>
> telnet server
>
> <do login stuff>
>
> [user@server] $ Xvnc 2> /dev/null > /dev/null &
>
> <That command runs Xvnc, diverting all output and error output to /dev/null>
> <The "&" makes it so you can keep entering commands as Xvnc runs; "daemonizing" Xvnc>
>
> [user@server] $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0
> [user@server] $ startkde&
> [user@server] $ exit
>
> <logout of server>
>
> Then, from workstation:
>
> <While logged into a GUI terminal, like xterm, rxvt, konsole, gterm, Eterm, etc>
>
> [user@workstation] $ vncviewer
>
> Then enter "server" as the VNC server
> and :0 as the port
>
> You now have a complete remote GUI access thingy.
>
> Try it: you'll like it!
>
> -- Asheesh Laroia.
>
>
>
> --
> Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
> -- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
>
>
>
