[TriLUG] Remote Console Access to X-Windows

[Dan Monjar]

a commercial solution is Exceed from hummingbird Software.  I've used it 
for years.


--On Friday, November 22, 2002 10:55:15 AM -0500 Sinner from the Prairy 
<sinner at escomposlinux.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 09:58, Jaimie Livingston wrote:
>> I've been tasked to find a secure solution to gaining remote X-Windows
>> console access to various systems running Linux (or OBSD, if you are so
>> inclined).
>
>> The stated goal is for someone to be able to securely access servers in
>> our datacenters worldwide from remote clients (a laptop running Windows
>> XP or RHL 8.0) and be able to interactively launch and use X-Windows if
>> desired and for whatever reason. The reasons have not been given to me,
>> so I can't answer questions about why anyone would want to do this on a
>> given server.
>
> 1. Install Cygwin on Windows
>
> 2. start an X server on Cygwin (just X is needed) and leave it on the
> background
>
> 3. ssh to the Linux machine from Cygwin
>
> 4. launch the X application from within the ssh tunnel, so it's secure
> communications.
>
> Done!
>
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
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--
Dan