Justin:
OK, I got vnc installed and it's sort of working. I say "sort of" since
it gives me a window, but the window doesn't offer much more than what I
got when I used ssh to access the zlinux system. The window contains a
normal prompt and lets me enter commands, but it just acts like a
terminal window. What I am looking for is a desktop environment like I
get when I login to my Ubuntu linux system, one with an action bar thet
gives me pull-downs from which I can open applications that will also
run in windows. Am I expecting too much when I am looking for one
Linux's "worksation" interface (like zLinux's) to look roughly like
another's (Ubuntu Linux, Knoppix Linux, or any of the other Linux
distros I have used)?
Is there some way that you can get such a desktop as a zLinux logged-in
user?
Mike Myers
using Justin Payne wrote:
On 11/27/2009 10:54 AM, Mike Myers wrote:
Hi all:
I have recently gotten RedHat's zLinux installed and running under
Hercules, and a trying to gain some experience with it prior to
attempting to install it in an LPAR on a client's system.
I'm looking for some information on how to get started. All I have found
so far is the ability to login using SSH. I have created a couple of
users and was hoping that i could make use of a graphic environment, but
haven't been able to get much more than a rudimentary terminal
environment. How would I go about accessing zLinuz from a windowed
environment and where would I find documentation?
Mike Myers
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If your goal is to have remote access to an entire desktop environment,
then the following articles is very helpful and still applicable to
RHEL-5.
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/006apr05/features/vnc/
Be sure to open the necessary ports in your firewall (if iptables is
running) that Mauro pointed out. For your Windows clients, you will need
a vnc client (a google search for "windows vnc client" turns up quite a
few).
If an entire desktop environment is not your goal, then go with Jay
Brenneman's suggestions.
-Justin
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