Remote X Sessions

sMeAgOl · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:18 pm Post subject: Remote X Sessions

Hi!

I have a LAN and I have several questions about sharing an X server:

1) How can I do to configure a computer as an X server to give access to an X session to the rest of the LAN?

2) I know how to access to remote X sessions with GDM, but I don't use Gnome, and I would like to know if there are another ways to connect to an X server, from KDE or console.

3) It is also possible to set up an encrypted X server to use it throught TCP, via ssh?

Thanks and sorry for my English ;-)

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bryhhh · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 73 Location: /etc/passwd

2. If it helps, you can use GDM instead of KDM even when using KDE.

3. Enable ssh forwarding in /etc/ssh/sshd_config by uncommenting/adding the line

+O! · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Belgium

1: Could it be that you are confused by the term X-server ? The X-server runs on the computers/workstations/(thin)clients. Not on the computer you want to run the applications from.

For instance the setup I have at my company : I have a (veeeeeeeryyyyyy) old computer that I use to experiment with Linux. On my other PC that I use for my everyday work, I run an X-server (under MS Windows 2000 : cygwin with xfree86) from that PC I connect to the Linux pc with secure shell. In the secure shell session I start applications that use the X server that's running on my Windows PC :

1° Start linux pc (you don't have to start any X server here if you're not planning to use graphical applications on this computer)
2° Start X server on another computer on the LAN
3° SSH into the Linux box
4° Start applications on the Linux box that use the X server on the other computer to display there information.

There's more configuration to it than this. If this is what you want to do get back me and we'll try to set it up.

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