Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:42:56 EST From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Terminal Services for BSD? Message-ID: <200112171143.fBHBh2M32755@relay.flashnet.it>
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** Reply to note from Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> 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
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