Re: remote admin

Peter
2005-04-15T14:05:33Z

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:02 -0500, Eric Bambach wrote:
> On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:47 pm, qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> > Eric Bambach wrote:
> > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration
> > > but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface.
> >
> > Getting a GUI interface for ssh is easy. Simply start
> > ssh from an xterm, login to the remote server and execute
> > xterm. This will cause a remote xterm to appear on your
> > local X display.
> >
> > Instead of a remote xterm, you can start a remote
> > window manager (or other X application) the same way.
>
> Hehe, I stand corrected. I suppose *I* usually think of it as more of a
> console administration app. Anyways, this is not a good solution if you are
> logging in from a windows or "other" OS based machine. You would have to
> install a local X-server which may or may not be practical or useful.
>
> Additionally, as others pointed out you can tunnel X connections over SSH.
> While this is true the X protocol by itself is quite heavy and lag and
> interactivity will be less than spectacular on anything less than 10Mbit.
> This is why I suggested NX Server for GUI administration because it does some
> quite spectacular compression and caching I havent seen in other projects
> (though I admit I havent done alot of diggin on the subject, only raw X,
> lbxproxy, ssh compression, and VNC each of which has its own caveats)
> > Cheers,
> > Steven

You don't have to pay for an NX server: for example...

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8139

An interview with Fabian Franz and Kurt Pfeifle regarding the FreeNX
server.

I played with it on my small home network and it works well.

Unofficial Debian packages here:

http://kanotix.com/files/debian/freenx/

They may also exist in Debian Sid, I haven't checked (I'm running Ubuntu
here at the moment)