Re: Enabling remote logon - any decent intro docs?
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 21:51 +0100, AG wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a guest account on my machine and want to enable that user to
> access that profile from another Debian machine on my LAN. This task is
> called remote networking, right? And as far as I can tell OpenSSH is
> probably the way to go. How can I give this user the experience (i.e.
> desktop, icons, files, etc.) from the LAN machine that they would get if
> they were logged in directly?
I usually do it like this:
ssh -X guestuser@remotehost
it'll ask for a username and a password; once you get access to the
shell just call your favourite programs;
the remote machine will forward the graphical parts to your pc. for a
complete "desktop feel" you need to call the "gnome-session" program or
the "start-kde" program.
but, you should expect some minor discrepancies between this and a local
session, simply because things are not 100,00% perfect, only 99,9% :D
this what I usualy do....
I've even tried this approach on a SunOS to WindowsXp running mingwin
for X server :) works good enough for me... cheers
cheers
jmf
>
> I'm sure that this is reasonably straight forward, but I can't seem to
> find a coherent answer in a language I can understand. I'm not hugely
> technical and most docs that I've come across seem to assume computer
> wizardry above my ability. I'm not expecting others to do the work, but
> just would appreciate a sign-post to some decent (newbie-friendly?)
> documents that will enable me to give a remote user a local experience
> of their user account while retaining a reasonable degree of security.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks very much
>
> AG
>
>
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