Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I know that's quite a common
'enterprise' way of doing things, ie using hummingbird+xterm where putty
will suffice. If you just want a remote terminal, then run sshd on your
box and ssh into it.
If you want to run X apps remotely, ie the app runs on your server but the
window appears on your desktop, then you need to run X on your server (may
already be doing that), ssh into it with X forwarding (putty config to
turn on x11 forwarding), and run and X server locally (eg hummingbird,
xming). Now you can run xterm from your putty session and it will appear
on your local desktop.
My 2 cents: Don't use xdmcp. Don't use vnc. If you must, tunnel your
traffic. All exposed ports are vulnerable, limit your exposures to
things you trust (ie sshd) or things you require (ie apache).
-Andy.
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Jeremy wrote:
On 11-06-27 08:50 PM, David wrote:
Today, the default for remote X11 sessions is to start a local X server,
ssh into a remote host and start the x11 app.
At a previous employer, we ran Hummingbird X11 on the desktops and had
icons on our desktops for XTerm sessions on the various UNIX servers
(Solaris). For example, double the icon for xterm on server abc123, and an
xterm window opened and you then logged into the server, not that different
from using putty.
For the sake of learning, I'm looking to create a similar setup at home
between my desktop with xming and my home centos 5 server, but I haven't
had much luck finding any info. The closest thing I can find is enabling
GDM with XDMCP, but that's more than what I'm looking for. I just want
xterm, not a full desk top.
Does anyone have any info on setting up such a configuration? Maybe this
was/is a Solaris specific thing?
David
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