Has anyone got the remote X-Win32 running?

[Predrag Punosevac]

Brad Pitney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Robert Chalmers
> <robert.a.chalmers at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've read the spots off everything I can find about getting X going, and I
>>  have it all up and running sort of.
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>>  But only sort of.
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>>  I have X-Win32 trialling on a laptop, and want to be able to connect to the
>>  Xserver - but I just can't seem to do it.
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>>  To give you a run down.
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>>  I have X working.
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>>  I have KDE working.
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>>  I have the /etc/ttys entry set to:
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>>  ttyv8  "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm  on  secure
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>>  ..  (I note that kdm is much prettier, and appears to work Just as well)
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>>  I have the entry in xdm-config commented out.
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>>  ! DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
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>>  /root/.xinitrc contains "exec startkde"
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>>  Ok.
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>>  Using 'xdm' , booting brings up an oversize font LOGIN -PASSWORD display.
>>  Very ugly. (kdm looks nicer, but I'm following the manual)
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> xdm can look nice.
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>>  Neither xdm or kdm, let me log in as root.
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>>  I have to go Ctl+alt+F1 to get to the good old terminal window.
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>>  Now, the main problem is .. Which is a real pain, as I do need to connect to
>>  this thing remotely.
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>>  I can't connect from the remote laptop's X-Win32 program xterm emulator
>>  program.
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>>  Has anyone managed to get any remote, xterm emulators going? And how so?
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> you know, I'd recommend X over ssh, although I used Xming, there 's a
> package with it bundled with putty
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming
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> even comes with pretty good documentation
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>   
I am not sure if I understand original question. Do you want to have GUI 
access to your remote machine?


1. If you are in the LAN zone you can run X-server on your Windows 
machine (obviously Cygwin comes to mind
and XOrg for it as well as other GNU tools) and run
x-clients (applications on your remote box) via let say tftp (Trivial 
File Transfer Protocol) or much slower NFS.  Read  man  pages  for XOrg 
and tftp how to do that.

2. If you want to connect remotely on the insecure network you basically 
have two options

a. ssh -Y (edit /etc/ssh/sshd.conf file) since by default X log in is 
disabled. You have to have quite good machine to do this because of 
cryptography used by ssh and good internet connection. You again need to 
have OpenSSH on your
Windows machine so Cygwin is must.

b. You can run VNC server on your FreeBSD box and run VNC client on your 
Windows machine.
ThightVNC comes to mind. I prefer SSVNC client for the client side 
because of cryptography but I am not sure if it
available for Windows. Any how you can use TightVNC which does exits for 
Windows.

Best,
Predrag



>>  Thanks if you can help - I'm almost there.
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