Remote access to Xwin apps 1

[jstreich]

I have a telnet service running, and I want to be able to use Emacs, Gaim ect. from a remote (unix/linnux box) but I get an error telling me to add the IP of the machine ot the xhost list (which I do) and check the DISPLAY variable.
This doesn't seem to be working. Also, I want to use Xwin32 or Cygwin from remote locations to log in... What services will I want to run, and what should xhost and DISPLAY be set to?

 

[jstreich]

Never mind. Finally found something that told me exsactly how to do it... It happened to be on the XWin32 site.
This is cool, X11 apps on a windows machine over SSH.

 

[flugh]

I've been using TightVNC <

http://www.tightvnc.com>

for the last few months. I have the tightvnc server installed on my Mandrake box, then open up my desktop using the tightvnc viewer on my WindowsXP box. I was astonished at how seamless and beautifully this all worked. Really wish someone had pointed me in that direction a long time ago!

My only big gripe is I can't get copy and paste to work in either direction. That's a bit of a pain when trying to paste config and man page stuff from my Linux box into a Tek-Tips post! Other than that, beautiful. --
JR

 

[jstreich]

I've been playing with it, and VNC port is firewalled off by my ISP from outside the LAN. I temararily turned off the SSH service on my box, and ran the server on the SSH port and the problem I have is that that only seems to work to get me to the root desktop (supplying the system with my Xvnc password), and (for some reason) without a window manager. I believe the lack of windowmanager is the result of running KDE and only being able to have a single KDE session open at time.

The same thing happened running the typical Xhost services. What I found was F-Secure for windows allows you to tunnel, so I F-Secure to tunnel the Xwindows information to XWin32.... It works fine, so I am assuming from another X11 boxen over SSH or telnet I can use X11 tools now that I have the permissions set.