Are you familiar with ssh x which allows you to use gui applications from the remote machine?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:51 PM To: Hardhats Sourceforge Subject: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: remote desktop sharing Hello all, I have taken an offcast PC and made a linux server out of it. I want to do my future VistA development on it. Furthermore, I would like to be able to work off of it when I come to the OpenVistA conference. I can ssh into it and work that way, but I would like to be able to use a NICE editor (i.e. I hate 'vi')... so I have started thinking about setting up remote desktop sharing. When I have done web searches for this, it seems that the technology is "vnc". My redhat 9 book, however, says that vnc transmits passwords in plaintext, and that one would need to tunnel it through a ssh shell for security. Its sounding a bit complicated. Is there an easier, but secure, way to share the server desktop? Also, it seems that the VNC system is sending screenshots of the server's desktop. But I wonder, didn't someone mention on the list recently about another way, i.e. the X11 system sends remote draw commands etc rather than sending simple graphic images of the desktop? Thanks Kevin _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
