[TriLUG] Looking for Remote access to Unix boxes via Wintel

[Jon Carnes]

We ended up using Cygwin after all (their setup instructions where wrong,
but one of our talented tech support guys figured it out -- while I was in
meetings all day).

For those it interests, here is the full skinny:
===

In order to connect to one of our new Linux or Solaris boxes and get both
command line control and GUI access, both a SSH client and a X-Windows
server will be needed. Free versions of both are available via the Cygwin
distribution.

INSTALL OF CYGWIN WITH SSH AND X-SERVER
=====================================
Install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe :
- choose "Run program from its current location" and Click Yes on next
screen
- Click Next
- Choose "Install From Internet"
- Choose location to install and store packages
- Choose "Direct Connection" and pick a site. I have had decent speed with
http://mirrors.rcn.net.
- Make sure it says "Install" in front of "XFree86" ( and NOT "default" ).
Click on round arrows once if necessary
- Expand the "Net" section and pick "openssh". openSSL should get
automatically checked also.
- Expand the "Doc" section and pick "man"
- Click Next, the install should begin. It may take some time.

ESTABLISHING SSH+X-WIN CONNECTION
================================
- Double-click on <Path to Cygwin>\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat
- Left click in the window that popped up to place shell window
- In that bash shell window, type "xhost <host you want to access>"
- Type "ssh -X -l <your account> <host>". If it is the first time you
connect to that host, first accept that host's key and then type your
password to get in.

- Set up the DISPLAY environment variable by typing: "DISPLAY=<your IP>:0"
and "export DISPLAY". If you have to change user during your SSH session,
make sure you set the DISPLAY variable to the appropriate value again.

TEST
====
To test that everything is working right, try to bring up the clock by
typing "/usr/openwin/bin/xclock &". A clock should show up.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Vestal, Roy L." <rvestal at rti.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:50 AM
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Looking for Remote access to Unix boxes via Wintel


> Jon, check out XWin32, H*ll of a lot better than hummingbird and a heck of
a
> lot cheaper. It's not freeware but...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at haht.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:26 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group
> Subject: [TriLUG] Looking for Remote access to Unix boxes via Wintel
>
>
> We want Hummingbird, but we aren't going to pay that much... so anyone
have
> a suggestion for a freeware alternative?
>
> For the uninitiated - Hummingbird is a Xserver for Wintel boxes (and by
> "server" I mean you run it at the Wintel box and attach to the Unix box
and
> can get GUI access, similar to ssh but GUI).
>
> Cygwin sort of does this, but is limited in that it gives you the whole
> desktop rather than simply a GUI connection.  I'm sure Cygwin will be able
> to do this in the future (since its docs tout this functionality), but it
> ain't there yet.  Please correct me if I am wrong!
>
> TIA
>
> Jon
>
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