Remote X11 Connection

[Konstantin Svist]

thanks everyone for the advice

and sorry for threadjacking 0:-)



Les Mikesell wrote:
> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>>>
>>> As I said at the start, I've also heard good things about freenx. I 
>>> gather it makes the process much slicker, without the need for all 
>>> the CLI stuff. However, its not at all standard in most distros, 
>>> whilst vnc is and installing in places significant burden on the 
>>> remote sys-admin, so you might have to fight to convince them to do 
>>> so (unless you happen to be that admin ;) )
>>>   
>>
>> What about 100/1000 connections with SSH-only?
>
> You can ssh-tunnel just about anything, but I'd still pick freenx/NX 
> as the first choice if you plan to use it much and only consider the 
> others  where that isn't available.  If the target is fedora, just 
> 'yum install freenx'.  Then you need to get the client ssh key from 
> /etc/nxserver to the client machine and import it in the client 
> configuration program - and make sure the 'use ssl encryption for 
> entire session' option is set.  Everything else is pretty obvious.  
> I've only used the windows and mac clients though, so I'm not quite 
> sure how the linux client setup works.
>