On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:50 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote: > J. K. Cliburn wrote: > > Jonathan Allen wrote: > > > > > > I find that it will run an individual task (xterm, ooffice, etc.) fine, > > > but one of the reasons I wanted this was to be able to do remote system > > > admin using the various drop-down menus and service lists that are a part > > > of the standard Gnome session/desktop. > > > > > > Any ideas ? > > > > There was a thread posted here within the last week, in response to > > which I detailed the steps for activating xdmcp across 2 FC5 hosts. > > Search the archive and I'm sure you'll find it. > > Thanks for the suggestion, but this needs to be secure, so neither VNC > or XDMCP are an option. I'm working a number of leads to avoid the > window manager clash or to use FreeNX. You can always tunnel VNC over ssh. I have used this in the past, it works well. The best option IMHO is to use ssh and invoke the particular tool you need to run such as system-config-services. No reason to run a full window manager to admin the box. And if you really need a menu type interface for these admin tools it would be fairly easy to write a script or program that presents you the list and lets you call the program you want. You can even create a set of launchers on your local machine that start ssh and executes the particular script/program on the remote system in one shot. ssh -Y nameofremoteserver nameofprogramtoexecute Set this launcher up to run without a terminal and you get a nice authentication requester to establish the ssh connection then the program/script will be run on the remote system and its display exported to your terminal. Works well. This would give you a set of launcher icons on your local machine that connect to and launch specific applications.
