James and et al: I have downloaded Teraterm at
http://www.ayera.com/teraterm/ and TTSSH at: http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html I installed TeraTerm first, and I see it already has an SSH option to connect. Anyway I installed TTSSH in the same directory. When I run it I see it only comes up with the Telnet option to connect. So not sure what the TTSSH one is suppose to do. But running TeraTerm already has SSH. Anyway I'll ask for feedback about how to use it after I have installed X Window on the live server. If anyone can tell me how to find out and get all the rpms I need to install Gnome or KDE for Red Hat 7.1 remotely that would be great. Cheers Louis. Louis Selvon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where is it for RH 7.1 ? >I suspect it's somewhere obscure in /usr/X11R6/lib/something. "locate gdm.conf" or "find / -name gdm.conf" will find it for you. Louis> Thanks for that. But after browsing the forums and emailing the support staff for my server, I found out that they do not install the X Window system on the servers they give. So looks like I've got to install it first. What's the easiest way for me to do this remotely ? Can I use "up2date" to get the files, and what are all the rpm files I need to install either Gnome and/or KDE ? > > I want to manually enable xdmcp for a server located across the web, > and see if cgiwin/XFREE86 can send me the graphical display for the > server. >Whoa there tiger. xdm is cool for local networks, but there's no way I'd do it accross the internet. There are two compelling reasons why: 1. It's insecure. 2. SSH lets you do the same thing, with compression! Louis> I see. Thanks for letting me know. The forums I read also did not recommend this approach. >Here's what I suggest as an alternative: >Get teraterm and ttssh (only because I know for a fact that it can do X forwarding). Start your X server. Run ttssh and connect to your server in the US - set ttssh to "forward X connections". Start whatever program you need to use accross the internet. Crank up the compression settings on teraterm and you'll find this is generally a less painful experience. Louis> Where can I get "teraterm" ? You say start the X server. Once I install Gnome or KDE isn't the X server always up and running across a live server ? >You could for example run gnome-panel and get your gnome foot thing. Louis> Once I install the GUI stuff, I'll see about that. I'll keep you posted on that. >There's probably some additional gotchas, but that's the basic principle - forward X over your SSH tunnel. Louis> I have Putty that I use to connect remotely. I can do both Telnet and SSH. But I think I will permanently disabled Telnet on the server. For that I just set "disabled" to "YES" from the "/etc/xinetd.d/wp_telnet" file on this server, and that should do it right ? Do I need to restart Apache for the new changes to take effect ? >If you're doing remote administration you *need* ssh. The ssh that ships with cygwin will do this as well IIRC. Louis> How do I run ssh with cgiwin ? > I initially tried VNC for this but never got it working. So I gave up. But I am feeling confident with cgiwin/XFREE86. >there are two really nice things about vnc - first is that you have a persistent session, second is that you can tunnel it over ssh. Might be worth persisting with, depending on what you really need. Getting ssh to forward X is probably the easiest. Louis> Well if I get some help on this one I will definetely give it a go again. So which is better then using "teraterm" or "VNC" or have both setup and then I see which best suits me ? I just bought a Networking guide for homebased setups, and it has a copy of VNC on there. VNC 3.3 for Windows, and VNC 2.8 for Linux. Actually it might be a good idea for me to try both VNC and teraterm for my local network to see how it's setup, and then I can progress with the live server. But I want to at least install an X Window on the live server at this very moment. I am on holidays now so have time to do this right now. Cheers Louis . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
