Re: remote x-window
On Sunday 05 February 2006 19:31, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 3 February 2006 at 8:58:08 +, Michael Fleming wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. You'll have to export $DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0.0 so that the display on the remote machine is displayed on the local. Specifically, the DISPLAY environment variable states the name of the remote host, the server number and the screen number. Normally you only have one server, which is then 0. It's quite common to have more than one screen: I'm writing this on echunga.lemis.com:0.0, but there are two further screens called echunga.lemis.com:0.1 and echunga.lemis.com:0.2. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html for an example. You'll also have to forward X11 packets, check your ssh_conf so that forward X11 yes. This is for tunnelling over ssh. I wouldn't recommend that in a local context. I use cygwin on my work laptop ( XP ) and a openvpn connection to my BSD machine then fire up the display on the XP machine. It's possible that you'd need it here, but between BSD machines it's just overhead. One thing that you don't mention is whether the server will listen on TCP. This used to be the default, but it isn't any more. If you're using startx, you'll have to remove the 'nolisten-tcp' option. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/desktop.html. If you're using KDE or GNOME, you'll probably have to do something similar. I don't know the details, though. Greg Thank you much for your response, you have clarified a couple of points I wasn't sure about. In the short run I went with running a vnc server on the box which is supported by KDE. However, I need to learn all of this as I have need for it from time to time. Looks like I have a bit homework to do. Thanks again, Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --- pgpcUGLK7Jp6U.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: remote x-window
On Friday, 3 February 2006 at 8:58:08 +, Michael Fleming wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. You'll have to export $DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0.0 so that the display on the remote machine is displayed on the local. Specifically, the DISPLAY environment variable states the name of the remote host, the server number and the screen number. Normally you only have one server, which is then 0. It's quite common to have more than one screen: I'm writing this on echunga.lemis.com:0.0, but there are two further screens called echunga.lemis.com:0.1 and echunga.lemis.com:0.2. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html for an example. You'll also have to forward X11 packets, check your ssh_conf so that forward X11 yes. This is for tunnelling over ssh. I wouldn't recommend that in a local context. I use cygwin on my work laptop ( XP ) and a openvpn connection to my BSD machine then fire up the display on the XP machine. It's possible that you'd need it here, but between BSD machines it's just overhead. One thing that you don't mention is whether the server will listen on TCP. This used to be the default, but it isn't any more. If you're using startx, you'll have to remove the 'nolisten-tcp' option. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/desktop.html. If you're using KDE or GNOME, you'll probably have to do something similar. I don't know the details, though. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpYKbWB8fWbS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: remote x-window
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. Beech -- You'll have to export $DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0.0 so that the display on the remote machine is displayed on the local. You'll also have to forward X11 packets, check your ssh_conf so that forward X11 yes. I use cygwin on my work laptop ( XP ) and a openvpn connection to my BSD machine then fire up the display on the XP machine. I did use just ssh and allowed only ssh from the outside to the BSD machine, but found that someone was trying to brute force the username and password so set up the openvpn. I feel a lot more comfortable with that, even though it's just my own private network. There's plenty of info on google to point you in the right direction. Mike -- Michael Fleming* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free-BSD GnuPG Key Id 933B27E7 http://pgp.mit.edu/ pgpCTaOKEJrsJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: remote x-window
On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. Beech -- -- - Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com -- - For strictly a X11 forwarded solution, do something like the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh -CY [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ twm # or xfwm4 or something else like that. For a VNC solution, I suggest using x11vnc. By using SSH forwarding and compression you can easily attach to a preexisting desktop session. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote x-window
On Friday 03 February 2006 00:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. Beech For strictly a X11 forwarded solution, do something like the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh -CY [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ twm # or xfwm4 or something else like that. For a VNC solution, I suggest using x11vnc. By using SSH forwarding and compression you can easily attach to a preexisting desktop session. -Garrett Thanks for the pointers. I googled for vnc and it doesn't look very hard to configure. Plus, KDE supports it. Think I'll go with that. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --- pgp4lZJIf0PM8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: remote x-window
Michael Fleming wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. Beech -- You'll have to export $DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0.0 so that the display on the remote machine is displayed on the local. You'll also have to forward X11 packets, check your ssh_conf so that forward X11 yes. I use cygwin on my work laptop ( XP ) and a openvpn connection to my BSD machine then fire up the display on the XP machine. I did use just ssh and allowed only ssh from the outside to the BSD machine, but found that someone was trying to brute force the username and password so set up the openvpn. I feel a lot more comfortable with that, even though it's just my own private network. There's plenty of info on google to point you in the right direction. I also noticed a lot of brute force username and password attempts, an easier solution is to just change the default SSH-port ( /etc/ssh/sshd_conf ) as I did Mike -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
