VNC could work

Thanks.

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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bart Garst
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:56 PM
To: PLUG Discuss
Subject: Re: x over putty x forwarding over ssh and the like.

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 19:15, todd hewett wrote:
> Anyone have any experience running x over SSH?
> 
> I have made it this far:
> 
> 
> -  Make sure the X server is configured and running
> -  Open your SSH session (with X11 forwarding enabled)
> -  type xterm, or your window manager command, or the name of any other X
> program
> 
> Here is the rub that I have.
> 
> My Linux box is sitting in a rack without a mouse or keyboard attached to
> it.
> 
> So when I startx it fails because it is looking for local mouse and
keyboard
> that are not attached to it.
> 
> 
> Is there a good (easy) way around this?
> 
> 

I use vncserver. I ssh into my linux machine from windows via putty.
Start the server with `vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768`. I can then
tunnel my vnc session(?) through putty.

I haven't tried doing this from one linux machine to another.

Bart

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