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Re: X on a virtual server



On 06/26/11 at 01:03pm, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:59:52AM -0400, William Hopkins wrote:
> > On 06/26/11 at 03:11am, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> > > I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given
> > > machine, that X must be running and configured on that machine. But X
> > > doesn't want to configure itself on a "virtual private server" that
> > > has NO PHYSICAL VIDEO CARD, or so it seems to me at present.
> > 
> > yes, if you want to log in remotely to X, X must be present VNC is
> > designed for this purpose. VNC will run a virtual X server and allow you
> > to connect to it remotely.
> 
> The other alternative is XDMCP, which is designed for this sort of thing.
> This may be of some use:

XDMCP is remote X login. That's the option we just eliminated. 

-- 
Liam

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