From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 6:41:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535AB37B41A for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:41:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by acmex.gatech.edu (Postfix, from userid 19753) id BB34D1DFA7; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:41:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acmex.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB101F165; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:41:36 +0000 (EDT) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:41:36 +0000 (EDT) From: Michael Imamura X-Sender: gte255n@acmex.gatech.edu To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminal Services for BSD? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20011214092110.0097a7e0@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Lord Raiden wrote: > Just curious, but I know that Win2k, and XP both have the Terminal > Services client on them so that someone can work on a given workstation > from a remote location, kinda like a simplified version of PC > anywhere. But does BSD or unix in general have anything like that for the > shell/Xwindow environment? I'm in no need of such a thing just yet, but I > thought it would be neat if it was available. And if it is, does it > provide SSH security? Hi, that type of networked functionality is one of the highlights of Unix-like operating systems :) Check out VNC: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ (in the Ports Collection as /usr/ports/net/vnc) It's been a while since I've used VNC, since I normally just use the built-in networking features of X (and SSH X forwarding). Here are a couple resources on this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html http://www.lugatgt.org/articles/using_ssh/#toc_2_2_2 - Michael Imamura zoogie@lugatgt.org LUG@GT Web Guy http://www.lugatgt.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message