On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:51:27PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > I want it to be logged in to kdm so that i can start x11vnc and check > something out from the office. Can I do that from the command line?
so essentially you are used to using x11vnc to connect to your remote machine where you are normally logged in all the time, even when you are not there, and now the problem is that you are not logged in... what do you want to check? if you have a local X server you could just run the program in question and have it display locally. if you are running windows locally you could try running Xvfb remotely and use that together with x11vnc. Xvfb will pretend to be an Xserver it only won't actually display anything. that should be fine for you though, as you can't see the real remote Xserver anyways (so a fake one will do) x11vnc should work with Xvfb just like it works with the regular Xserver. another option (which requires a local Xserver), is Xnest. this will start another Xserver in a window, and is usefull if the program you need to run is a window manager (which you can't just redirect to your local Xserver because you already have a window manager running (and there can only be one)) last option is to use xdmcp. for this you need to have your remote Xserver to listen to xdmcp queries, and then have a local Xserver sent a query to the remote one. you will then get the login window of the remote server. easiest option is to find a commandline client that allows you to make your checks. that's the route i am going, and is one reason why i am so keen on using the commandline. it's just easier for this remote stuff. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
