On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:06:06PM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Take a look at SSH. It would get you a couple of things you probably
> need in your "headless" webserver configuration :
>
> 1. Secured connections to your headless system from anywhere.
> 2. X forwarding over that same secured connection.
>
> X forwarding allows you to have the base X stuff and X applications loaded
> on the webserver and after logging in via an SSH connection (like Telnet,
> only secure...), you can have them display on your local machine.
>
> You set your DISPLAY shell environment variable with (for bash) on the
> webserver with :
>
> export DISPLAY=yourdesktopmachine:0.0
If you ssh to youre webserver machine with X11-forwarding option turned on (which is not a default ooptions on current ssh in potato ) you don't have to export display because If you do that X11 connection won't be secure anymore. ssh with create display name ie.
DISPLAY=webservername:10.0
display socket no 10.0 is s secure channel that ssh create.
> If you need access to the webserver from Windows systems, check out Tera
> Term and the SSH extentions written overseas for it. It works pretty
> well, and I use it regularly without trouble. There also used to be a
> free Windows X server (so you could display X apps from the headless box
> to a Windows machine...) at www.microimages.com, but I've heard rumor that
> it's not free anymore ... :(
>
I heard about ssh2 implementation on windows not sure where. For Xserver on windows, I suggest startneti X-win 32. It's not free but quite cheap ($100) and has a good performance. You can use a demo version for free up to 2 hours each time you start it.
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