Also, if you would like to be able to get to "your" desktop remotely you can use x0rfbserver. http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/ The way VNC works with linux, you get a seperate desktop :1 :2 etc.. instead of your main display :0 when you run vncserver. What x0rfbserver does is works like using VNC on windows where you see your actual desktop :0, not another display such as :1 or :2. I'm using this for my grandma who is running linux with oeone desktop http://www.oeone.com
All she has to do is click on the x0rfbserver icon and I can use any VNC client to help her out and see exactly what she is seeing on her desktop. This might be a little off topic, but it helped me out in this case and did exactly what I was looking for in a remote desktop management solution. Adam J. Melancon ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Adam J. Melancon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Remote desktop management Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 14:19:49 +0000 If you would like to disable it you can go to /etc/ssh/sshd_config change X11Forwarding yes to no At least this is how it's done on my version of mandrake. enjoy! Adam J. Melancon ----Original Message Follows---- From: Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Remote desktop management Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 06:24:41 -0500 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 > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
