On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:07:51PM +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
>
> How do I connect my running Xserver on LinuxBoxA to clients (such as
> KDE's kfm) on LinuxBoxB??
>
> Shouldn't that be pretty straight forward?
yes.
it is.
there's two ways I have done this.
#1
while in X on LinuxBoxA, in an xterm, type
xhost +LinuxBoxB
telnet into LinuxBoxB.
try
echo $DISPLAY
it should respond
LinuxBoxA.yourdomain:0.0
if not
type
export DISPLAY=LinuxBoxA.yourdomain:0.0
NOTE:
this require a fully qualified domain name
not just a hostname.
type kfm, and kfm your appear on your screen.
this relies on you having the same username on both machines,
I don't know how to fix this if your username isn't the same...
and is apparently insecure in some way that I don't really understand.
if nothing else, your traffic could be sniffed and Someone else could
watch everything happening across the network.
but.. the way I do it is..
#2
install ssh on both machines
I believe lawson already gave a pointer to where to get it
and If you are using debian, all you should need to do is
apt-get install ssh.
while in X, in an xterm..
type
ssh LinuxBoxB -l yourusername
type your password
then at the prompt, type
kfm,
and It should appear on your screen....
advantages to #2
doesn't require the same username on both boxes
ssh handles all of the screen writing permissions
everything going across the network is encrypted.
ssh has some _really_ nice features, like the ability
to generate a personal public/private key pair, then
type in the passphrase _once_ at the beginning of your
session, and be able to ssh securely to any boxen that
have ssh set up right, w/o a password
hope this helps
greg
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