Mike Dwiggins wrote:
Konstantin Svist wrote:I have been thinking VNC. My problem is I travel a lot and have to manage a couple of applications that use x-windows control panels for my wife's business and am looking for the most efficient way.Mike Dwiggins wrote:Dumb beginner question here. What is the best software to use to set up an SSH X-Windows session?I am doing well with putty but have hit a point where I need to bring up my browser in a remote session..Mike D.Depends on what you're trying to achieve.With ssh, you can run this to execute the application remotely but have it displayed locally:$ ssh -Y <remote_host> <application>If you want it to be displayed remotely as well, you'll want to look into VNCAlso, maybe you want to run the application locally but use remote user profile. Then you can map remote path to a local directory with sshfs and point the local application to the data (it will appear to any application as if it were local).HTHI can do it quite well if I am home but am looking for the best solution for remote. Sigh I guess I am going to have to dig into VNC.Mike D.
Again, if you don't need the applications to be displayed on the actual machine where they run, ssh -Y is a very robust solution. I've ran many applications - e.g. text editors, control panels, even gparted (disk partitioning software) and all worked without a hitch and were very fast. The best part is that ssh is already there :)
Remote desktop VNC (a la windows VNC) is very slow because it needs to send a video stream back and forth. "Traditional" VNC is annoying/hard to set up; most of the time it's just not worth the effort.
