Remote X session with Red Hat

[Jason Berendsen]

I am trying to remotely administer a RedHat 9 machine. I am able to telnet to it without a problem. I am unable to start a remote X session with it via Reflection X. I am familiar with how to setup CDE in the HP-UX realm, but how do you remotely get an X session or gnome session with RedHat?

[Kjartan Maraas · Accepted solution]

You can start gdmsetup as root and enable XDMCP from there. This should let you query the X server.

[Steven E. Protter]

This document might help help you make progress..

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/XDMCP-HOWTO.html


This thread contains a solution.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xc9095bd3782dd711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

As does this one.

Or read Kodjo in this one.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x9f775220af9bd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

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[Jason Berendsen]

Thanks for both of your help, it worked great!

Jason

[Claudio Cilloni]

I think a great way to administer and to generally use a remote machine is VNC.

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc

if it isn't already installed you can find it in RedHat CDs.

Ciao
Claudio

[Jerome Henry]

To complete what Claudio says, VNS viewer is on RH Cds, not VNC server (the administrated machine).
great software indeed, export displyas through TCP/IP.
Just be carefull as for password.
Use it everyday to monitor what my students really do behind their screens...
J