Remote login... Oh Boy

[Joseph Sinclair]

The closest to your old rlogin approach would be "ssh -X yourserver.ip.address <x program to run, e.g. meld>"  you might need to fiddle with some settings to get it working, however.

On 07/22/2012 12:56 PM, Stephen wrote:
> ssh transfers i think would be the fastest/easiest. there are some gui
> clients that can do this.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Wayne Davis
> <waydavis.phx.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok,
>>
>> Years ago, when i worked for frontier global-center, I remember that we
>> could "rlogin" to a system and "Startx".   At least I REMEMBER it this way.
>> My recollection was that I was running the GUI LOCALLY and metatdata was
>> being transferred across.   VERY fast & efficient screens.
>>
>> A:   AM I recalling wrongly?
>> B:   I'm wanting to set up a server box on my network  for files, music,
>> video that will be headless (No monitor or mouse connected)
>>
>>         Running Kubuntu 12.04 as primary OS on all boxes here.
>>          I see rlogin, ssh,   blah blah blah.......
>>
>>
>> I'm looking for EFFICIENT GUI presentation, File transfers.
>>
>> xvnc11 works but is slow, teamviewer is making connections outside my
>> network to operate AND is wine based :-(
>>
>> What should I use that will keep it S I M P L E (if possible) and secure  (
>> I am behind a M0n0wall WRAP firewall)  I want to be able to connect at will.
>>
>>
>>        Is this going to be a major pain?
>>
>>
>> Thanks everyone for your thoughts  :-)
>>
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