Alex Smith wrote: > > Mm'kay. If you're looking for cli based remote access, the general > concensus of, well, everyone is that SSH is the way to go. sshd runs on > port 22, and allows you to have complete terminal control of your box, > similar to if you just opened your favourite term. > If you're looking for a more graphical approach, you can still use ssh > with X forwarding, however this can end up as more tricky. There is also > the possibility of using VNC, rdesktop, or a number of other protocols. > You have to play about, google a bit, and see what suits you best. I > like to just.. `vncserver` on my main box, vnc to it, and boot up > thunderbird whilst leaving my other X session alone, but that might not > suit everyone. > The only hard part I have found about running a GUI program over a SSH link is that you need to know the command to start the program, instead of picking it from a menu. But running programs this way tends to be faster then trying to run a remote VNC desktop over a slow network connection.
If you need a full remote desktop, then VNC is the simplest way to go. There are instructions for setting up a VNC connection over SSH, but I have not played with it. Another way is to run your remote window manager in an Xnest window on the remote machine. The Window manager uses Xnest as its display, and the Xnest window is displayed on your remote desktop. I would use one of the light-weight window managers for this, but that is up to you. Basicly, you would do something like this: Statx X on local machine. Open an xterm (Or equivelent) ssh -CX <remote machine> (The -C and -X options are probably enabled by default, but make sure.) run "Xterm :5 &" on remote machine. (Window opens up on you local display.) run "blackbox -display :6" on the remote machine. You should now have the Blackbox window manager running in a window on your local machine. Mikkel -- Registered Linux User #16148 http://counter.li.org
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