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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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



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http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk


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