Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required
On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:54, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:41:28 -0500
>
> Bob Smither <bob@smither.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:34 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > I have been able, with a second ssh hop onto my workstation from
> > > the server (also forwarding X) to run individual X based
> > > applications so that the display is on the laptop, but I can't
> > > figure out how to get it to operate so the whole desktop gets
> > > displayed there. Is it possible? and if so How
> >
> > Not directly responsive, I know, but you could certainly run a VNC
> > server on the workstation (serving up a complete desktop) and then ssh
> > to your firewall (with X forwarding) and run VNCviewer there to
> > display your complete desktop session back to your laptop. A little
> > indirect, but it does work.
> >
> > HTH,
>
> I second the proposal that a solution based on VNC is your best bet. It
> should even be possible to run a VNC viewer on your laptop and connect
> to your workstation in one hop:
>
> ssh -L 5901:workstation:5901 server
>
> Then you would connect the viewer to localhost:1. This would remove the
> need for X forwarding, and is usually faster too.
I think there is some subtlety here that I don't fully understand. I tried
what I thought was the right software (Debian package vnc4server) and added
the module vnc into my xorg,conf file.
I then downloaded a windows viewer from realvnc,com and tried to connect. It
ended up locking up my x configuration on the workstation (where the vnc
server was running) such that I had to reboot. It did that twice before I
gave up
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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