Without going into a lot of detail, X is designed so that it can work as a tcp/ip client/server application. Secure shell (sometimes) is configured to tunnel X connections by default. Therefore, your application was running on the client machine and the machine that you were sitting on was acting as the X server. Everything was done through an encrypted tunnel. There is no need to do any remote desktop thingy configuration on Unix, since it usually runs X and it is by default usable as a remote desktop.
Shannon Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: >Hi all > I had finally managed to put in mandrake on my desktop with X working quite >well. Now on the desktop running Mandrake I had configured a webserver, >sshd, Well just few minutes back i used secure shell from my laptop running >redhat 9.1 logged on to the desktop. just out of curiosity i just typed in >kmail after i logged in. And the kmail client opened. I could see all my >mails which are on the desktop and i could send and receive mails as if i am >using the kmail on my desktop. Now could somebody explain to me how this >happened? I never even configured the remote desktop program. I have also not >configured the kmail client on the laptop. In fact i am typing this mail from >my laptop using the kmail client on my desktop. I am not sure hoe much of >this makes sense to anyone. >but here's the stuff that is echoed before the program starts >******************************************************************** >[EMAIL PROTECTED] karthik]$ kbuildsycoca running... >Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". >libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted >libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering >Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". >libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted >libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering >Id '1' was already in done-list! >Id '4' was already in done-list! >Id '5' was already in done-list! >Id '6' was already in done-list! >Id '7' was already in done-list! >Id '8' was already in done-list! >Id '9' was already in done-list! >Id '3.1-update-identities' was already in done-list! >Id '3.1-use-identity-uoids' was already in done-list! >Id '3.1-new-mail-notification' was already in done-list! >Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". >libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted >******************************************************************************** > >I am still looking for an explanation for this...! >Cheers, >Karthik > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
