On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:24 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Out of curiousity, I'd like to know what are the better ways to setup > and run a headless (monitor less) machine with FC3. > > I'm going to setup a third linux box in my room, and thought it would be > nice to learn and try out. A lot of people seem to equate "headless" with text-only or VNC. So I thought I would also point out that you can run X applications remotely by tunneling them over SSH. It works well over a decent Internet connection and for single applications it is faster and more convenient than VNC. You can create desktop launchers if you run applications routinely. GNOME will display graphical password/passphrase prompts if you do not run ssh from a terminal: ssh -Y user@host /usr/bin/gedit Also, if you are on a trusted network you can setup X to allow remote logins to your headless machine. If you're using the default GNOME display manager then run gdmsetup on your server and check "enable XDMCP" on the XDMCP tab. Also uncheck "always disallow TCP connections to X server" on the Security tab. Now on your workstations run gdmsetup and make sure you have "Allow running XDMCP chooser from the login screen" checked. Once all of that is done you can go to a workstation, press F10, select "XDMCP Chooser" and then double click the appropriate server. The GDM theme can have a button to trigger the XDMCP chooser but I've not seen any that do so. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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