On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:29, Kitchener, Steve wrote: > Hi James, > > I need it as the program that is running on the server, takes over a virtual > screen CRTL/ALT+F8 and I need to be able to see that output, it's also > curses based to make things interesting. > > It looks like the serial option is the only answer as long as I can get to > the other virtual screens over a serial link. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 September 2003 14:52 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] remote access to text only screens > > > On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:47 pm, Kitchener, Steve wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > I know about ssh and the like, but what I was after was the ability > > to display the screens that are only normally displayed via the > > console screen, specifically those that are accessed via the CTRL/ALT > > + F1 etc...., but to be able to display those remotely on a different > > computer. > > Why do you need those screens and not some functionally identical text > logon? > > It is possible to get the single-user console to be via a serial port, > (and by extension over a modem,) but doing it over a network is always > going to fail if the network drivers are not loaded, say in single-user > mode. > > The only reason I can think of is if you want to support users who have > no GUI running. It might be possible to come up with some app that lets > you do that, the interfaces are pretty simple, but it probably isn't > out there already.
I haven't tried it yet (need to) but if the local user doesn't have a gui running it is possible to do SVGA version of VNC. Check out the tight vnc site for more info. But if you are in frambuffer mode a local gui isn't supposed to be needed. James
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