From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 3:43:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.flashnet.it (ems.flashnet.it [194.247.160.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FED037B41B for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:43:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.flashnet.it (ip079.pool-173.cyb.it [195.191.181.80]) by relay.flashnet.it (/) with SMTP id fBHBh2M32755 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:43:02 +0100 Message-Id: <200112171143.fBHBh2M32755@relay.flashnet.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Post Road Mailer for OS/2 (Green Edition Ver 3.0) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:42:56 EST From: Andrea Venturoli Reply-To: Andrea Venturoli Subject: Terminal Services for BSD? 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 ** Reply to note from Lord Raiden Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:23:14 -0500 > 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. X-window was build that way (i.e. to be network-transparent) from the beginning many years ago. You'll usually see the app you run on the server pointed to by the DISPLAY environment variable. You tipically have DISPLAY=localhost:0.0, which means your machine, server no. 0. You can easily change this, but you'll also need to make the server accept these connections (man xhost). So, basically, you can start X on your machine, telnet to a remote host, set DISPLAY=yourmachine:0.0, and go... An alternative might be xdm (or one of its replacement, like gdm, kdm, ...), which will provide a graphical login prompt similar to what Windows Terminal Services do. > And if it is, does it provide SSH security? Not as mentioned above, but see ssh's docs. BTW, there's also rdesktop, which is an X client that can connect to Windows Terminal Servers, providing the ability to have a Windows Session display on a UNIX box. bye av. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message